Dipping Is God's Appointment': The Mode of Baptism Among the Early Particular Baptists, with Special Reference to John Norcott (d. 1676)
Central to the challenge of being Baptist in seventeenth-century England was the then-controversial practice of immersion of believers. John Norcott's defence of immersion in his influential and oft-reprinted Baptism Discovered Plainly & Faithfully According to the Word of God (1672) provid...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Baptist quarterly
Year: 2018, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-12 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDG Free church NBP Sacramentology; sacraments |
| Further subjects: | B
Baptism
B John Norcott B Abraham Cheare B immersion B Francis Langdon B dipping |
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| Summary: | Central to the challenge of being Baptist in seventeenth-century England was the then-controversial practice of immersion of believers. John Norcott's defence of immersion in his influential and oft-reprinted Baptism Discovered Plainly & Faithfully According to the Word of God (1672) provides an excellent avenue of reflection on how Baptists of this era defended their convictions. Norcott's defence ran along four lines: an etymological discussion of baptizo, an enquiry into the meaning of baptism through such Pauline texts as Romans 6:4 and Colossians 2:12, a brief investigation of Galatians 3:27, and an appeal to the New Testament command to baptise, that is, immerse. All of these led Norcott to argue that dipping is God's appointment'. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-7731 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Baptist quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0005576X.2017.1367581 |