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6. As Noah's Ark was sometimes, (no doubt,) overwhelmed or covered with Waves, and those that were in it; so all true Believers, that are Members of the true Gospel-Church, ought to be dipped, baptized, or overwhelmed in Water. And, as Sir Norton Knatchbal observes, The Ark was a Figure of the Resurrection. (Speaking of that Text) Mr. Owen cites 1 Pet. 3. 20. (saith he,) Baptism which now saves us by Water, that is, by the assistance of Water, is Antipical of the Ark of Noah, and it doth not signify the laying down of the filth of the Flesh, but the Covenant of a good Conscience towards God, while we are plunged in the Water, which is to testify our belief of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; so that there is a manifest Antithesis between these words by Water, and by the Resurrection: Nor is the Elegance of it displeasing. The Ark of Noah, not the Flood, was a Type of Baptism; and Baptism was the Anti-type of the Ark, not as if Baptism is a washing away of the Filth of the Flesh by Water, wherein it answers not all to the Ark; but, as it is the Covenant of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Christ, in the belief of which Resurrection we are saved, as they were saved by the Ark of Noah; for the Ark and Baptism were both a Type and Figure of the Resurrection, so that the proper End of Baptism ought not to be understood as if it were a Sign of the washing away of Sin, although' it be thus oftentimes taken Metonymically in the New Testament, and by the Fathers, but a particular Signal of the Resurrection by Faith in the Resurrection of Christ; of which Baptism is a lively and emphatical Figure; as also was the Ark out of which Noah returned as from the Sepulchre to a new Life. Thus far Sir Norton Knatchbal in his Notes printed at Oxford, 1677, who though a great Pedo-Baptists, yet denied sprinkling or pouring to be Baptism.

6. As Noah's Ark was sometimes, (no doubt,) overwhelmed or covered with Waves, and those that were in it; so all true Believers, that are Members of the true Gospel-Church, ought to be dipped, baptized, or overwhelmed in Water. And, as Sir Norton Knatchbal observes, The Ark was a Figure of the Resurrection. (Speaking of that Text) Mr. Owen cites 1 Pet. 3. 20. (saith he,) Baptism which now saves us by Water, that is, by the assistance of Water, is Antipical of the Ark of Noah, and it doth not signifie the laying down of the filth of the Flesh, but the Covenant of a good Conscience towards God, while we are plunged in the Water, which is to testifie our belief of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ; so that there is a manifest Antithesis between these words by Water, and by the Resurrection: Nor is the Elegancy of it displeasing. The Ark of Noah, not the Flood, was a Type of Baptism; and Baptism was the Anti-type of the Ark, not as if Baptism is a washing away of the Filth of the Flesh by Water, wherein it answers not all to the Ark; but, as it is the Covenant of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Christ, in the belief of which Resurrection we are saved, as they were saved by the Ark of Noah; for the Ark and Baptism were both a Type and Figure of the Resurrection, so that the proper End of Baptism ought not to be understood as if it were a Sign of the washing away of Sin, altho' it be thus oftentimes taken Metonymically in the New Testament, and by the Fathers, but a particular Signal of the Resurrection by Faith in the Resurrection of Christ; of which Baptism is a lively and emphatical Figure; as also was the Ark out of which Noah returned as from the Sepulchre to a new Life. Thus far Sir Norton Knatchbal in his Notes printed at Oxford, 1677, who though a great Pedo-Baptists, yet denyed sprinkling or pouring to be Baptism.