The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at…

Quest. 2. But if you confess that once you were children of wrath, my next Question is, Whether you know how and whe• you were delivered from so sad a state? or at least Whether it be done, or not? Perhaps you'll say, It was done in your Baptism ▪ which washeth away Original sin. But granting you that all that have a Promise of pardon before, have that promise sealed, and that pardon delivered them by Baptism, I ask you.

Quest. 2. But if you confess that once you were children of wrath, my next Question is, Whether you know how and whe• you were delivered from so sad a state? or at least Whether it be done, or not? Perhap• you'le say, It was done in your Baptism ▪ which washeth away Original sin. But granting you that all that have a Promise of pardon before, have that promise sealed, and that pardon delivered them by Baptism, I ask you.

Quest. 3. Do you think that Baptism by water only will save, unless you be also baptized by the spirit? Christ telleth you the contrary with a vehement asseveration▪ John 3.5. Verily, verily, I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the spirit▪ he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God.] And Peter tells you that it is [not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God, 1 Pet. 2.21. If therefore you have not the spirit of Christ, for all your Baptism, you are none of his, Rom. 8.9. For that which is born of the flesh is (but) flesh, and you must be ⟨p. 259⟩