Abstract
ABSTRACTCentral 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 baptizō, 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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