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…

Now we may appeal to all the World, whether Zanchy doth not clearly and evidently testify the same thing which we assert, viz. that Baptism is and can be no other than Immersion, or Dipping, sith Sprinkling, all must confess, doth not represent, in a lively Figure, the Burial and Resurrection of Christ, nor our dying, or being dead to Sin, and Vivification to Newness of Life, saith he, Sacramentally, i. e. Analogically; and in respect of the near Resemblance, yet truly to be buried with, and raised with Christ. This, we say, cannot be said of them that are sprinkled only; for if in respect of Mortification, and Vivification, they may be denominated, buried, and raised with Christ, yet that outward Rite and Ceremony cannot of it self denominate them so much as Sacramentally buried and raised with Christ, for there is not so much as any likeness of such Things in it. But in true Baptism, viz total dipping the Body in Water, and raising it again, it is in a lively Figure held forth to our sight.

Moreover Chrysostom saith that the old Man is buried and drowned in the Immersion under Water;¹ and when the Baptized Person is afterwards raised up from the Water, it represents the Resurrection of the new Man to newness of Life, and therefore concludes (saith my Author) that the contrary Custom, being not only against Ecclesiastical Law, but against the Analogy and Mystical Signification of the Sacrament, it is not to be complied with.

1. 1Chrysostom.

It has been too long, God grant Men Light to see their Error, and do so no more.¹