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An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustratedAn analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated
An analytical exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applied by their uses for a further progress in holiness / by ... William Ames ...An analyticall exposition of both the epistles of the Apostle Peter illustrated by doctrines out of every text and applyed by their uses for a further progresse in holinesse / by ... William Ames ...
London: printed by E.G. for John Rothwell, 1641London: printed by E.G. for Iohn Rothwell, 1641
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Use. This may serve to direct us, in the time of danger not to look so much upon the means which God useth, as to depend upon God himself, who can turn any means unto the good of those that are his.
Vse. This may serve to direct us, in the time of danger not to looke so much upon the meanes which God useth, as to depend upon God himselfe, who can turne any meanes unto the good of those that are his.
Doct. 6. Baptism is such a means of our spiritual salvation, as the water of the flood together with the Ark, was heretofore of the corporal safety of Noah and his family.
Doct. 6. Baptisme is such a meanes of our spirituall salvation, as the water of the flood together with the Arke, was heretofore of the corporall safety of Noah and his family.
This is gathered from verse 21. It is called the Antitype of that water, not because the water was the type of Baptism, and Baptism the exemplar of it, but because there is a typical representative similitude betwixt these two waters. And the similitude consists herein, that as the water of the flood lifted up the Ark and saved Noah and his family in the destruction of the rest, so baptism strengthening our faith, and lifting up our souls unto God reconciled in Christ, saves us in the mortification of our sins.
This is gathered from verse 21. It is called the Antitype of that water, not because the water was the type of Baptisme, and Baptisme the exemplar of it, but because there is a typicall representative similitude betwixt these two waters. And the similitude consists herein, that as the water of the flood lifted up the Arke and saved Noah and his family in the destruction of the rest, so baptisme strengthning our faith, and lifting up our soules unto God reconciled in Christ, saves us in the mortification of our sinnes.