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…

Answ. In Answer to this, we do say, in a more remote sense, Baptism doth hold forth our being washed or bathed in Christ's Blood, which we doubt not but is signified in that of Titus 3. 5. by the washing of Regeneration; and in Heb. 10. 22. Yet certainly Sir Norton Knatchbul is in the right, The proper end of Baptism, saith he, ought not to be understood, as if it were a Sign of the washing away of Sin, although it be often-times taken thus Metonymically in the New Testament. This therefore, we say, Washing is not at all the main or principal thing, or such as is immediately, or primarily, but only remotely, and secondarily signified thereby. But the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, which is the Rise and Root, the Original and Meritorious Cause of all the Good we partake of, is the principal Thing signified hereby. But what advantage is it to you that are only for Rantism, for us to own Washing is signified by Baptism, sith Sprinkling can, as you use it, in no proper manner represent Washing? But suppose it did answer in that, yet it cannot be Baptism, because it cannot, nor does it in any respect represent the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ; nor our death to Sin, and rising again in a Figure, to walk in newness of Life; which Baptism we have showed was appointed to do, and therefore can be no other but Immersion, Dipping and Plunging, or covering the Body in Water, which ⟨p. 52⟩doth resemble, and most lively hold forth the Things signified thereby to our sight.

Answ. In Answer to this, we do say, in a more remote sense, Baptism doth hold forth our being washed or bathed in Christ's Blood, which we doubt not but is signified in that of Titus 3. 5. by the washing of Regeneration; and in Heb. 10. 22. Yet certainly Sir Norton Knatchbul is in the right, The proper end of Baptism, saith he, ought not to be understood, as if it were a Sign of the washing away of Sin, although it be often-times taken thus Metonymically in the New Testament. This therefore, we say, Washing is not at all the main or principal thing, or such as is immediately, or primarily, but only remotely, and secondarily signified thereby. But the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ, which is the Rise and Root, the Original and Meritorious Cause of all the Good we partake of, is the principal Thing signified hereby. But what advantage is it to you that are only for Rantism, for us to own Washing is signified by Baptism, sith Sprinkling can, as you use it, in no proper manner represent Washing? But suppose it did answer in that, yet it cannot be Baptism, because it cannot, nor does it in any respect represent the Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ; nor our death to Sin, and rising again in a Figure, to walk in newness of Life; which Baptism we have shewed was appointed to do, and therefore can be no other but Immersion, Dipping and Plunging, or covering the Body in Water, which