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Pray take what Sir Norton K•atchbul hath wrote, in direct opposition to what you affirm. Saith he,

Baptism, which now saves us by Water (speaking of the Text, in 1 Pet. 3. 21.) that is, by the assistance of Water, and is antitypical of the Ark of Noah, does not signify the laying down the Filth of the Flesh, but the Covenant ⟨p. 36⟩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 (saith he) the Elegance of it displeasing. As if he should say, the Ark of Noah, not the Flood, was a Type of Baptism, and Baptism was an Antitype of the Ark: Not as if Baptism is a washing away of the Filth of the Flesh by Water, wherein it answers not at 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 [mark] of Baptism ought not to be understood as if it were a Sign of the wishing 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 No•h returned as from a Sepulchre, to a new Life; and therefore not unaptly called by Philo, the Captain of the new Creation; and the Whale's Belly, out of which Jonah, after a Burial of three days, was set at liberty; and the Cloud, and the Red Sea, in which the People of Israel are said to have been baptized, i. e. not washed [mark] but buried: for they were all Types of the same thing as Baptism, viz. not the washing away of Sin, but of the Death and Resurrection of Christ, and our own; to which the Apostles, the Fathers, the Scholastics, [mark] and all Interpreters agree. The thing (saith he) is so apparent, as not to need any Testimonies; but because there are not a few who do not vulgarly teach this Doctrine, it will not be superfluous to produce some of those innumerable Testimonies, that I may (saith he) not seem to speak without Book. And, First, Let us begin with St. Paul,