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CHRISTTAN BAPTISM.
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you shall
find
complete
and
perpetual rest
from all
that
is
sinful
and
all
that
is
painful
;
you shall enjoy
a
day
of
glorious and blissful worship in
communion
with
the holy
and happy
inhabitants of
that
world, and
it
must
be
an
everlasting
day,
for
"
there
is
no
night there ;" Rev.
xxii.
5.
SERMON
VII.
CHRISTIAN BAPTISM.
MAT.
V
t
-ill.
19.
Co
ye therefore and teach
all
nations,
baptizing them in the name of the
Father,
and of the
Son,
and
of the Holy Ghost.
IN
all
the religions
which
God
had
prescribed
to
man-
kind,
there
have
ever been
some
outward rites or cere-
monies
appointed
for
man to perform,
whereby
God
would
represent the
blessings
of
his own
grace,
and
whereby
men
might
profess
their
humble
acceptance
of
those blessings,
and their
own
correspondent
obligations
to duty.
These are a
sort
of
seals
of
the
covenant
of
grace between
God
and
man
:
Such were sacrifices,
which
we
have good
reason to believe were
appointed
to Adam
just
after
his fall,
when
the
Lord God
made
them
coats
of
the skins
of
beasts which
were
sacrificed
Such
was
the
right of circumcision
given to
Abraham
and
his
children:
Such
were the
numerous trains
of
ceremo-
nies
or ordinances
which were
prescribed
to the
Jews
by
the hand
of
Moses,
wherein,
by
many offerings
made
by
fire, by
washings
and sprinklings
of
water and
of
blood,
the
blessings
of
the
covenant
of
grace
were
described
in
a
sort of
emblem
or typical language
;
and
the
people gave
up
themselves to
the Lord
in
a
way
of
covenant, accord-
ing
to
the
several
appointed rules
of
duty.
In
the
religion or gospel
of
Christ, there are
hut
two
ordinances
of
this kind,
instituted
for
christians
to
ob-
serve,
that
is,
baptism, which
is
performed
by
water;
and the
Lord's
-
supper,
which
is
celebrated
by
bread
and
wine.
The institution
of
baptism
is
contained
in
the
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