A Christian Dictionary, Dictionary 1 · Part 17
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Babes. sig:
INfants, whilst they be young and tender, vnweaned from the breast. Mat. 2, 20.
2 Such as bee weake in faith and knowledge, whether they be newly regenerated, or long since. 1. Cor. 3, 1. Euen as vntounto Babes in Christ. Heb. 5, 13. EueryEvery one that vseth Milk is a Babe; that is, one who is not ripe in knowledge.
Babylon. Sig pro
A famous Citty in Assyria, whence Peter wrote his first Epistle. 1. Pet. 5, 5, 13.
2 Rome, euen the Ecclesiastical Rome, where the Pope sits as head. Reuel. 18, 2. It is fallen, Babylon that great Citty. In Rome are found the vices which were in Babylon: Therefore by resemblance beares the name of Babylon. Metaphor. Sée fallen.Note.
The Papists in their Testament printed at Rheimes, (to proue Peter to be at Rome) doo take Babylon in 1. Pet. 5, 13. to bee Rome (mystically) for resemblance to Babylon in Idolatry and cruelty; yea, and confesse also, that Rome is meant by Babylon, in the 16. and 17. of Reuel. Therefore must needs bee the See of Antichrist.
Back parts sig:
So much of Gods glory, as in this life we are able to see. Exod. 33, 23. Thou shalt see my backe-parts, but my face thou shalt not see; that is (saith Luther:) Here we behold God in his words, and in his creatures, and in the face of Christ lesus our Mediatour: But when this body is dissolued by death, then wee shall see him face to face, and knowe him as we are knowne. 1. Cor. 13, 9. 10, 12.
Backbiters sig:
Them which by false, or true reportes, hurt the credit of their Neighbor in his absence, and behind his backe, Rom. 1, 30. Back-biters, &c.
To be baptized with y• Holy-ghost sig:
To receiue the giftes of the holy Ghost, which sometime were in a visible manner bestowed in the primitiue church, before or after Baptisme, Act. 1, 5. Acts 10, 44. and 19, 5.
To Baptize. sig: pro
To dippe into Water, or to plunge one into the water.
2 To plunge into afflictions or daungers (as it were into deepe waters.) Math. 20, 22. Can yee be baptized with the Baptisme wherewith I am baptised? that is, can ye suffer afflictions?
3 To sprinckle or wash ones body Sacramentally. Thus the Minister baptizeth. Math. 3, 11. I baptize you with water, that is, outward Sacramentall washing.
4 To wash the Conscience spiritually, purging it from the guilt and corruption of sinne, by Iustification and Sanctification. Thus Christ baptizeth. Math. 3, 11. Christ shall baptize you with the Holy-Ghost, and with fire. This is inward spirituall washing.
The Minister baptiseth, by sprinkling with water,Note. God baptiseth, by bestowing the guifts of his spirit. The baptisme of Iohn and Christ were all one for Ceremony, Action, and Substance, difference was in the persons; Christ being man and God.
To bee Baptized for dead. sig:
Not for the dead, or ouer the graues of the dead, but as dead, euen to destroy and mortifie sin, which is the true end of baptisme, and necessarily proueth the hope of the resurrection. 1. Cor. 15, 29. Which are baptized for dead.
To be Baptized into the death of Christ. sig:
To receiue Baptisme, as a Testimony of mortification, and as an Instrument of the Holy-ghost, for the extinguishing, and the killing of sinne by the death of Christ. Rom. 6, 3. HaueHave beene baptized into his death.
Baptisme, what it is?
The Sacrament of our Invitation or first entrance into the Couenant of grace: not that then wee first begin to be of the Couenant, but our being in it, is thereby sealed and assured. Rom. 4, 11. Circumcision as a seale of the righteousnesse of faith. It is an error in Popery, to hold, that in Baptism, natural concupiscence is taken away, not onelyonly touching guilt, but touching corruption too, to be no sinne.
More fully thus:
It is the solemne dipping into, or washing in water at the commandement of Christ, in the name of the blessed Trinity; by this outward signe of washing with water, to assure vsus of our entrance into fellowship with Christ, for our Iustification and Sanctification by his death and spirit vntounto eternall saluation in heauen. Rom. 6, 23. 1. Cor. 12, 13.
Baptisme. Sig
Dipping into Water, or washing with water. 1. Pet. 3. 21. Whereof Baptisme, &c.
2 Powring out, or shedding abroad the gifts of the spirit. Acts 11, 16. Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
3 Ministery and Doctrine of Iohn. Actes 10, 3. VntoUnto Iohns baptisme.
Barbarian. sig:
One rude and vnlearned. Rom. 1, 14. To the Grecians and Barbarians.
2 One, which so speaketh, as hee is not vnderstood. 1. Cor. 14, 11. Shall be a barbarian to me.