Gold refined, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…Gold refin'd, or, Baptism in its primitive purity proving baptism in water an holy…

But saith the famous Dr. Du-Veil, ¹To substitute in the room of Immersion, either Sprinkling, or any other way of applying Water to the Body to signify the same thing, is not in the Power of the Dispensers of God's Mysteries, or of the Church, for that, (saith he) as Thomas Aquinas excellently well observes, It belongs to the Signifier to determine what Sign is to be used for the signification; but God it is, who by things sensible, signifies Spiritual things in the Sacrament. To which let me add, Shall frail and silly Man seek out, or contrive new Rites, or Signs, having other significations than ever the great Lawgiver appointed or intended, and call them by his Name, viz. Ordinances or Sacraments of Christ? Will God, I say, ever, think you, suffer any Man, to invent, out of his own Brains, new Signs or Symbols of Divine Gospel-Mysteries, and father them upon him? What Ordinance hath he ordained to signify the sprinkling of the Blood of Christ? this cannot certainly stand with his Care, Wisdom, and Faithfulness; you may as well, no doubt, and be as far justified, to contrive some other proper and fit Signs or Figures of other Gospel-Mysteries, and call them Sacraments of Christ, as to change his Holy Institution of Immersion, or Dipping, designed and ordained by him, chiefly as it most clearly appears to represent his Death, Burial, and Resurrection into ⟨p. 51⟩Sprinkling, or Pouring, and make it represent washing in, or sprinkling with the Blood of Christ, and then say, and not blush, It may serve as well.

But saith the famous Dr. Du-Veil, ¹To substitute in the room of Immersion, either Sprinkling, or any other way of applying Water to the Body to signify the same thing, is not in the Power of the Dispensers of God's Mysteries, or of the Church, for that, (saith he) as Thomas Aquinas excellently well observes, It belongs to the Signifier to determine what Sign is to be used for the signification; but God it is, who by things sensible, signifies Spiritual things in the Sacrament. To which let me add, Shall frail and silly Man seek out, or contrive new Rites, or Signs, having other significations than ever the great Lawgiver appointed or intended, and call them by his Name, viz. Ordinances or Sacraments of Christ? Will God, I say, ever, think you, suffer any Man, to invent, out of his own Brains, new Signs or Symbols of Divine Gospel-Mysteries, and father them upon him? What Ordinance hath he ordained to signify the sprinkling of the Blood of Christ? this cannot cerainly stand with his Care, Wisdom, and Faithfulness; you may as well, no doubt, and be as far justified, to contrive some other proper and fit Signs or Figures of other Gospel-Mysteries, and call them Sacraments of Christ, as to change his Holy Institution of Immersion, or Dipping, designed and ordained by him, chiefly as it most clearly appears to represent his Death, Burial, and Resurrection into