6;8 Ofthe S & No 1 N a Sermon 8. --~~-~--------------------------------------------- 4Iob.9·l·· jinne? To deateidhortly; the_cruth is, it couldnoc_. It.is no •water.worke, with: eurfomewharputtolt,rohelpcltfcoure. But,norhmgonEarth: Nor if you Bcr.>.». to it b Nitre, m11ch Soee,Fullers.earth, the hMrbt borith (fay the Prophets)all will put Ctl:lp.lt.fo. Zcdt.13.1, Hebr.jpz. doe; it will nor oft~fo. Therefore, this of His in Jordandid not, could notdoe~ht feat,otherwife, than in theverrue of anothcrro follow. For, afrerrhis was pall He: JP•keof •nother baptifme,He waoo be baptizedwith. And that was it indeed: Tha( the fountaine, thatwa epenedto the huu{e of I{r~el, for jinne and for rmcleAnnef!e: tha;was baytt(rmu fanguznu. For,wtthout bloud, Without the m•xture of that, there isno deing away Jinne, llutthcbnptif· And fo was He baptized. And He badtrin~mmerfionem: 1 One inGeth{tmane !"•.of blo"di; > One in Gabbatha, l and athird in Golgotha. ' lnGeth(emane, in His fweatof bloJ n~i,'~',6~3, 3". bIn Gab~atba,in thebloud,rhat.came from the{cot~rges. and thornn: and in 'Golgotha: e Mark.• p>. that wluch came from thenatlesand theJPeare. Spec!Jlly, the f)eare: Thcre,metthe dlohn '9·34· two !heames, of d waterand bloud, the true JordAn, the bath or /aver,wherein we are u Ioh, 1 . 7 . c pt~rg!d from all ~urJirm!s. No finne, of fo deepe a die,buc t~is will commandir,and fetch it out. Th1smJordan, here, now, was but an underrakmg of rhat, then ·andiA ycrt~c of that, cloth all ourwater-bapti_(me w~rke. And therefore, ar~ wee b;ptizul mto 1t : ~at 1nt<? H1swater-haetifme, buunto H1s Crof!!·baptif ~e ; not mto HisbApti(– me, burmro H1sdeath. Somany .uarehapttzed, ArebaptlzedsntoHiod!ath: Itisthe v1pojlle,R~m.vz. 3· Dur a. 1 ,.,,,.f To t.ake our leave of this point. Thismay be faid: If it be Iujlice,that CHRist Chri(/sb.ptif· comc.cohaptifm:: ~uchmore?rhat thePeople. And how then.comesitto patfe,rhat mr. chere1s fuch facnlegwus pndc mfame of rhe Peopl!, that (as 1f no fuch thing were) fer fo light by ir as they doe<: and char, not Iohns (as this was;) but CH R, srs ownebapti[me? Befureofth1s,if CH 11 Is T thus did, tocountenanceandcredit :t.h'P·7·3b; · Iohnshapti[me; becaufeitwasthcordinanctof GoD: muchmoreHismindeis, to gi vc countenance, and tohave countenance given, to His owne,which is Go I> s or·. o~J;nance,of a£1rre higher nature. And, if rhe L o rr n, thought not much, to come to chehapti[meof hisfervant: He ·will rhinkc much, if the fervamcome nor, cothebapti[meof his Lo • o. This of His then, is but a leffon to us, toinvireus thereto: :md werotake it asthevaiu, that fpake to St. Paul (Afi.XXIl.I6.) Etntmc quidm~raru r Surge,ahluepew.t.tua: And nowwhy flay you? why protract you the time1 Vp,wafo Away yo11rfinwes,wiJh all rhefpeedyoumay. For, if whenrhenuplewMhaptized, CHRIsT wasfo: much more fl:rongly it holds ; when CH 11 xs T Himfc:lfc is fo,that then, the Pe1ple {hot1ldando11ght to be hapti.:,ed. ,Thefci:ood .. Now C ~a r s T;, baptized. And no fooner is He fo: but, He falstoHislr<J~ ~"' t corijl< ers. indigentiA mater orationis (we l:1y:) Wantbegersprayer: Therefore,yctthctc apu ";_· wants fomewhar. A pare, and that a chiefe part of bapti[me, is fl:ill behinde. . . cbrifi•P"Y" There goes more to hapti[me, if it bee as it lhould bee, thanbapti[inmJlummlf: focfomcwhac yea <I may boldly fay) there goes more to it, if it be as itlhould,thanbapti(m/IJfin– ~·;;,~~:~~· guinil: CH RI • T cameinwaterandb!ot~d,notinwateronly, butinw•teond~lo~d: 'forthebaptif· chat, is not enough, except the Spirit alfobeare witnejfe. Sobapti[mm Fiammlf,.ls to '"' •f•h•H•IJ come coo. There is eo beeaTrinititbencath, •water, •btoud,and ltheSpmt,to ~:(.;1,7,~. anfwer to chat above: but (the Spirit's bapti[me commingtoo) inthernouthofall Pcu•·'9• 1 !· three, all is made fure, all efl:ablilhed throughly. This is ir, Heprayesfor as man. Th•b•r•ifr""/ For,tbebapti{meofhloud,that was due eo every one ofus (and each ofus to have u,~dwcarc beene baptized in His ownc bloud; ro have had threefuch immerlions ;) that,hath ~'"tot. CH 11 1 sT, quit us of. When He was asked, by the Prophet, How Hisrobacamt fo . red? He [ayes, He had beene in the wiwe-yrejfe; but, there Hehadbeene,~nd that !I# Droy ~J·•~· hadtrod, alone : Et vir de gentibm non Ji•it memm, Andnot one of thePeoplew11h J/llll> none but He,there ;inthat :fpares us,inrhat. !M
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