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sin, buried with Christ, he rises to a new life, henceforth to walk not in the
lusts of the flesh, but obedient to the will of God.’” f480
Prof. Howard Osgood, D.D., says:
“In 1666 and ‘68, Arents, a Mennonite author, published a treatise in favor of
immersion.” “In 1740 an anonymous Mennonite f479 author defends
immersion. Schyn, the historian of the Mennonites, certainly leans in favor of
immersion.”
S. H. Ford, LL.D., who has made Baptist history rather a specialty, says:
“In the Dutch Martyrology, translated by the eminent Dutch scholar, Rev.
Benjamin Millard, of Wigan, the name given to the Anabaptists or
Mennonites is that of Dippers. Thus, on page 34, are found these words:
‘Some of the principal Dippers, that is, Baptist people, were seized (De
voornaemste Doopers: verstaet Doops Gesinde. )’ That Millard gave a false
rendering of Doops is not to be supposed, and consulting seven Dutch
Lexicons, they all agree with the one now before me. It is by Tauchnitz,
Leipsic:
“Dooping — baptizing, christening, dipping, plunging.
“Doopsel — baptism, dipping.
“Dooper — dipper, plunger, Baptist.
“Now, Dooper was the term of reproach given to these Anabaptists by their
foes in Holland, as its equivalent, Dipper, was in England.
“We read in the Dutch Martyrology that one Herz Lowrys, in 1528,
persecuting the Baptists, ‘addressed the council in strong terms, inquiring
what they intended to do with these dipping heretics (Martyrology, vol. 1, p.
71), and again, in the next pages he is quoted as exclaiming: ‘O, the dippers,
the dippers!’ Several such instances might be cited. But these are surely
sufficient to show that the use of such expressions and epithets can be
accounted for only on the ground that they immersed all candidates for
baptism. … We close this by affirming that every scholar knows, who has
consulted the original, that the words of Menno, Doopsel inden water, are
correctly translated immersing, as dipping in water.
“But Menno adds to this its explanation: ‘Yet, whoever will oppose, this is the
only mode of baptism that Jesus Christ instituted, and His Apostles taught and
practiced.’” f482
As to the argument for affusion among the ancient Mennonites, derived from
modern Mennonite authors, I will reply in the words of Mosheim:
“Many circumstances persuade me that the declarations and representations of
things given by the modern Mennonites are not always worthy of credit.” f481
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