get òuo raft b. the Glory or Majefly of God dwelt between the Cherubim:; and acceptance in their Services and Sacrifices offered unto God. But preter- cnitting thefe as being but Shadows, and by Chrifians experimented in lefus Chrift the fitbfance of them ; )( {hall infance in the, four great ftanding Ordinances in the Chrillian Church; and {hew how the Believer may ex.; perience them to be from God, and in that experience prove the Scripture , which ap- points them,to be from him alfoo The fir{{ Ordinance I {hall inftance in is that of Baptifm : This by the Ancients was filed Ocori -pis, Illumination, as ufhering in the E- vangelical light. St. Bäfil calls it Vegimentuni candidum 6- fignaculum fanitum, the whits garment and holy fign. It is by St. Autlin na- med Porla Grati.e, the door of Grace, and fìrft entrance into the Church. And by St. Bernard, Chriflianifni invejtitura the firft putting on Cbrijtianity, In Luther it is, Aqua non Create_ ri: fed Dei falvatori:, the mater not of the Crea- tor but of God the Saviour. Among the Jews the Profelyte of tbè Gates was only teed to the feven Precepts of Noah, but the Prof lyre of Righteoufnef: was bound to all the Mofaical Ordinances, and was initiated into 7udaifm by Circumcifion and Baptifm, and the blood of Oblation. The Jewifh Rabbins built this Baptifm of Profelytes on that Command of Cod, .Exod. r 'IQ. That the people fhould Jvi- Bb 2 ciJi
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