nab= sift ». 373 ,ciaffi feculo & voluptatibus ejus ; Thou haft re- nounced the Devil and his works, the World and its pleat /ores, forget not thy Baptifm. And the reafon of this bond is, becaufe Baptifm is an Ordinance of Stipulation, called by St. Peter glee Ttsttcx, the ftipulation or interrogation of a good Confcience towards God, r Pet. 3. 2 r. It is an entry into Covenant with God, and binds the Confcience. Were it no Ordinance of God, there would be no Stipulation, and fo no Ob- ligation upon Confcience. But when the Be- liever finds his Baptifmal Vow pre(lìng there, he knows that Baptifm is of God. Again, he knows it by the inward ffrength and power which he receives from thence. The virtue of Baptifm follows the Believer, as the water of the Rock did the Ifraelites, in all the travels of this World even to his dying hour ; at which the oldeft highefl Saint may refrefh himfelf by running back to his Baptifm.When temptations come and affault the Believer, when Satan carts in his fiery darts to inflame the Corruption of the Heart, the Believer is the fironger to re- pulfe them, becaufe of Baptifm. A pious Vir- gin, as Luther relates, ufed to oppofe this to every Temptation, Baptizata ¡um, nihil faci.r Satan ; I am Baptized, 0 Satan, thou cant do nothing. In the African Perfecution under Munericus, one Majoricus a fine young Man,be- ing brought forth to fuffer for the Truth,was thus confirmed therein by his Mother Dìsnyfia; Memento, mi fili, nor in nomine Sacro f an x Tri- adic in Ecclefia efre Baptizatos ; ah ! ne perda- mus thud preciofiffimum indumentunr, ne veniens, B b 3 qui
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