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The Form of Baptism, viz. External and Essential, is no other than an Analogical Proportion, which the Signs keep with the Thing signified thereby: For the Property of the Water washing away the Defilements of the Body, does in a most suitable Similitude, set forth the Efficacy of Christ's Blood in blotting out of Sin; so dipping into the Water, in a most lively Similitude sets forth the Mortification of the old Man, and rising out of the Water the Vivification of the new Man: The same plunging into the Water, saith he, holds forth to us that horrible Gulf of Divine Justice, in which Christ, for our sakes, for a while was in a manner swallowed up; abiding under the Water, (how little time soever) denotes his Descent into Hell, even the very deepest of Lifelessness, lying in the sealed or guarded Sepulchre, where he was accounted as one dead. Rising out of the Water, holds forth to us a lively Similitude of that Conquest which this dead Man got over Death. In like manner, saith he, 'tis therefore meet that we being baptized into his Death, and buried with him, should rise also with him, to go on in a new Life. Thus far

The Form of Baptism, viz. External and Essential, is no other than an Analogical Proportion, which the Signs keep with the Thing signified thereby: For the Property of the Water washing away the Defilements of the Body, does in a most sutable Similitude, set forth the Efficacy of Christ's Blood in blotting out of Sin; so dipping into the Water, in a most lively Similitude sets forth the Mortification of the old Man, and rising out of the Water the Vivification of the new Man: The same plunging into the Water, saith he, holds forth to us that horrible Gulph of Divine Justice, in which Christ, for our sakes, for a while was in a manner swallowed up; abiding under the Water, (how little time soever) denotes his Descent into Hell, even the very deepest of Lifelesness, lying in the sealed or guarded Sepulchre, where he was accounted as one dead. Rising out of the VVater, holds forth to us a lively Similitude of that Conquest which this dead Man got over Death. In like manner, saith he, 'tis therefore meet that we being baptized into his Death, and buried with him, should rise also with him, to go on in a new Life. Thus far

And let all thinking and serious Christians carefully consider, since this sacred Ordinance was appointed to be thus significant, as this and other Learned Men observe, what a sad and lamentable thing it is, that the true Baptism should be changed from dipping into sprinkling, which neither doth nor can hold forth these great Mysteries, for which purpose our Saviour ordained it: For 'tis evident Rantism or Sprinkling doth not bear any Proportion to these Mysteries, nor can they be signified thereby. What Figure of a Burial of Christ, or of the old Man is there in sprinkling a few drops of Water on a Person's Face? Or what Representation is there in that Act of a Resurrection? O, how is Christ's holy Baptism abused by this devised Rantism, and the Signification thereof destroyed! the Lord open your Eyes, or the Eyes of my godly and impartial Reader. This shows you clearly what Christ's true Baptism is, as also the true Subject. But to proceed.