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b2
Ephefians,
Chap.
5
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Dal;
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bnm
ad derma-
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&
fit
Sa-
crameptum.
Yfe.
The
ufe
of
this
to
us:
r.
To
Thew
to many how
voyd they
are
of
the fruits
of
Baptifme; they have the
(hell,
they want the
kernel!:
many
want
this
death to
finne, and life
to
righteoufneffe,they
want
that
baptifme of
Chrift, though
that
be
not
of
man
but
of
God,
Acts
7.51. o
yee
uncircumcifid
of
heart
:
fo
it
may be laid to many, O
yee
unbaptized
ones,not
wafhed
in
your
foules.
It doth
teach
us,
that
we
muff
all
ftrengthen our
felves
and
fur-
ther ourfanâification,
our fruition
of
Chrift
and all
his
benefits,
even
from
this feale
which God hath
given
of
ir.
If
a
man
bath
put
to
his
Peale
to
any thing, we count that lure, none
can
goc
againft
his
Peale
:
how
much more
fhouldwe hence
allure our
felves
of
Chrift
and
his
benefits, becaufe
God
bath
fealed
themto
us
r
he hath promifed,
hee
hath fworne,
he bath put
to
feale,
that
we
might
be affured; we make
dormants
of
them,
never looks
to them,
as
good have
no
baptifine,
as
not
ufe
baptifme; when therefore you
linde
doubting, touching the
pardon
of
your fin,you mutt reafon,Hath not God
fprinkled on me
that
water which
is
the
pledge
of
Chrilfs
love fprinkled on my confcience,
to
wafh
away that
fin
of my fouler
When
we
finde
that power
of
fin
great
in us,
we mull fay, Have not
I
beene
Pet
into
Chrift,
flredding
his
blood,
and
dying bybaptifme,
that
I might dye with
him fo when we
finde
want
of
holineffe and
grace, we mull reafon, Have not
we been
fprinkled
with
that
water, which
is
the walhing
of
the
new
births
The
third thing
is
in
thefe words,Through
the
Word;whencc we
fee,
That
all
the
farcethe
water
bath,
is
by
ream
of
the
word
of
promife with
which
it
is
cloathed.
Why,
faith
.Auflin,
on the
15.
of
John,
you
are
pure
through the
Word. Why
did
not
he
fay
through the
wafhing
of
waters
Becaufe
all
the force
of
the water commeth from the
Word
:
for
take away
the
Word,
what
is
water but water! the
Word
cota-
meth tothe element,
and
maketh
a
Sacrament. And
left we fhould
thinke he meaneth
it
of
the word
Sacrament,
as
it
is
pronounced by,
the Prieft,he faith,Whence
bathwater
this force,
&c.From
the
Word,
on
quia
dicitur, fed
quia
creditor; for water might
lignifie
cooling
as
well
as
denting, if
God by
his
Word
fhould
not
determine
it.
This
therefore
being fo, it
doth
teach
us
that
all
the
working
of
the
Sacrament
is
from beleefe
on
that which
is
promifed by
it,
for the
waters worke
is
becaufe
of
the
Word,
the
Word
is
nothing
not min-
gled
by
faith, Heh.4.
2.
Ergo,Baptifine
doth nothing but by
meane
of
beleefe,
all
the working
of
it
is
to
be refolved
into faith,
co/.2.
r
z.
We
are railed up
by Baptifine: how
ex
opere
operator
no,
through
faith
:
and
here
is
an
excellent harmonie of
thole
things that
are
Paid
to fandifie
us,
I am Jehova your Sanótifier; the
blood
of
Chrift
doth
purge us;
the
Word
doth
make
us
pure,
14.15.
ï
Pet.
2.
The
Sacra-
ments
doe
clenfe
us.
God
he
by
his
vertue from
himf
lfe immedi-
atelydoth
produce our
Sant
lification. 2.
Chrift
his
blood
Both
it
by
procuring the
Spirit
that doth
clen
fe
it.
3.
The Word
and Sacraments
doe
it
by
ftirring up faith on
Chrift
crucified, and fo leading
us
to
God
who
doth
clenfe
us
:
and
this
is
to
be
noted againft the Papift,,
who