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ecause of the effrontery with which this denial is made is it here noticed.
Crosby quotes Sir John Floyer:
“The practice of immersion, or dipping in baptism, continued in the church
until the reign of James I., or about the year 1600. … Sir John Floyer says:
‘My design being to recommend the use of cold bathing to this country, I
thought it necessary for the assuring of all people of the innocency of that
practice to represent to them the ancient custom of our church in the
immersion of infants, as well as all other people at their baptism. And I do
here appeal to you, as persons well versed in the ancient history and canons
and ceremonies of the Church of England; and therefore are sufficient
witnesses of the matter of fact which I desire to prove, viz.: That immersion
continued in the Church of England until about the year 1600. And from
thence I shall infer that if God and the church thought that practice innocent
for sixteen hundred years, it must be accounted an unreasonable nicety in this
present age to scruple either at immersion or cold bathing as dangerous
practices.’ … In the Synodus Wigorniensis, ‘Trina semper fiat immersio
baptizandi,’ Anno 1240. And in the Synodus Exoniensis, 1287, ‘Si puer rite
baptizatus, non ipsa submersio, neo praecedentia, sod subsequentia
persacerdotem suppleantur,’ and the Synodus Wintoniensis, Anno 1306,
mentions the immersion. I have quoted all the preceding passages, says Sir
John Floyer, from Spellman, whose credit cannot be questioned, and I desire
all thence to observe that the immersion was always used to children as well
as adult persons. … Linwood, who began to write his Constitutiones Angliae,
about the year 1422, interprets a competent baptistry to be big enough for the
immersion of the person to be baptised. … It is evident, by the rubrick in the
days of King Edward VI., that the English church used that practice: “Then
shall the priest take the child into his hands, and ask the name, and naming the
child, shall dip it in water thrice; first dipping the right side, secondly, the left
side, and the third time, dipping the face downwards in the font, so it be
discreetly and warily done.’ In the Common Prayer Book, in Queen
Elizabeth’s days, the rubrick says, naming the child: ‘You shall dip it in the
water, so it be discreetly and warily done, but if the child be weak, or be
baptized privately in a case of necessity, it was sufficient to pour water upon
it.’ King Edward’s injunctions were published in 1547, by which all were
forbidden the breaking obstinately the laudable ceremonies of the church.
And in Sparrow’s collection of articles, etc., in the articles of Queen
Elizabeth, 1564, it is ordered, ‘That the font be not removed, nor that the
curate do baptize in any parish in a basin, nor in any other form than is
already prescribed. … When Christianity was first planted, the hath structures
were turned into temples, and the Piseinas’ or cold baths were called
Baptisteria by Pliny, Jr., and in them they baptized frequently. And the
Saxons, who succeeded the Romans, brought in the German custom of
washing in rivers for preserving of their healths; and that made them receive
the baptismal immersion in rivers and fountains without any scruple. … That I
may farther convince all my countrymen that immersion in baptism was very
lately left off in England, I will affirm that there are yet persons living who