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An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on…An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on…
An exposition on the whole fifth chapter of S. Johns Gospel also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reverend divine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his own hand ...An exposition on the vvhole fifth chapter of S. Iohns Gospell also notes on other choice places of Scripture, taken by a reuerend diuine, now with God, and found in his study after his death, written with his owne hand ...
London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for John Bartlett, 1630London: printed by H. Lownes and R. Young for Iohn Bartlett, 1630
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1. That this is a Sacrament, which is apparent by that application which Saint Peter m•kes of; 1. Pet. 3.21. where he maketh Baptism, and the flood, alike figures representing one thing. [Greek or Hebrew] is a resemblance of a thing, and [Greek or Hebrew] a like resemblance of the same thing [sometime.] For we are not to ⟨p. 174⟩understand this, as a subordinate Sacrament, or as a Figure of Baptism, for then it follows. First, that a Sacrament may be a sign of a Sacrament. Secondly, that something should be represented to Noah, which he knew not of, for Baptism was instituted long after.
1. That this is a Sacrament, which is apparent by that application which Saint Peter m•kes of; 1. Pet. 3.21. where he maketh Baptisme, and the flood, alike figures representing one thing. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is a resemblance of a thing, and 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a like resemblance of the same thing [sometime.] For we are not to ⟨p. 174⟩vnderstand this, as a subordinate Sacrament, or as a Figure of Baptisme, for then it followes. First, that a Sacrament may be a signe of a Sacrament. Secondly, that something should bee represented to Noah, which he knew not of, for Baptisme was instituted long after.
2. What kind of Sacrament this was; It is first, the first Sacrament which we read recorded in Scripture, given to the Church, [after the fall of man.] Sacrifices there were as we read of Abel and Cain, which were also in a manner as Sacraments, because both represented Christ, and God by that means did uphold their faith in expectation of him. But now the Church having a long time waited for the accomplishment of the promises, and accounting them to be now the further of, that they might say as it is,