AGain, it will be no greater a shame and disgrace for those* 1.1 great ones you speake of to be rebaptized, then it was to them, who as the Apostle saith, were the true Olive branches, Rom. 11. 17. who were formerly Circumcised, yea it is proba∣ble that some of them so circumcised, were afterward twice bap∣tized, viz. with the baptisme of John in Jordan, and after by the Apostles, as in that number of about three thousand which we read of, Act. 2. 41. We read also that the Disciples at Ephesus, were first baptized unto Johns Baptisme, and after were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus, Act. 19. 5. therefore albeit those great ones of the world be now baptized, in relation to the Jewish Circumcision, yet must they likewise be baptized according to the Apostles example, or they cannot be admitted as members of the Church of Christ, according to the Apostles institution, which if they refuse, they ought to be refused here, and will be elsewhere; yea let such great ones, and all the rest of the Nati∣on* 1.2 be well assured, that so farre as they are from complying with this ordinance, that so farre they are from acknowledging Christ to be their Master, and so consequently their Saviour; yea the contaminating of this ordinance (now so fully mani∣fested) wil be as much as in them lyeth, to crucifie Christ againe in the flesh, and to put him to as open shame, as ever did the Jewes, Heb. 6. 6. and this they may be as assured of, as Christ is in hea∣ven, or his truth on earth. Selah.
Obj. You speake very strangly, for the omission of this, or any other ordinance, is no fundamentall point of Salvation, and therefore not of so great a consequence as you conceive, for the Israelites omit∣ted circumcision in the Wildernesse, for the space of forty yeares, at which God seemed not displeased.