A fourth volume containing one hundred and fifty sermons on several texts of Scripture…

(2.) Because all the Ordinances hold it forth, especially the Ordinance of Initiation. So that it is the greatest Hypocrisy in the World to pretend to be God's People, and not to be holy, because they wear the Badges of Holiness; they all come in by the washing of Water. Men forget their Baptism; 2 Pet. 1.9. He hath forgotten that he was purged from his old Sins. Men that are only whited over with the Name of Christians, and Sin is still new and fresh, as an old thing, they forget the Effect ⟨p. 172⟩of their Baptism: That a washed Man should be so foul and noisome still, sure they forget, or do not know what it is to be baptized into Christ.

(2.) Because all the Ordinances hold it forth, especially the Ordinance of Initiation. So that it is the greatest Hypocrisy in the World to pretend to be God's People, and not to be holy, because they wear the Badges of Holiness; they all come in by the washing of Water. Men forget their Baptism; 2 Pet. 1.9. He hath forgotten that he was purged from his old Sins. Men that are only whited over with the Name of Christians, and Sin is still new and fresh, as an old thing, they forget the Effect ⟨p. 172⟩of their Baptism: That a washed Man should be so foul and noisom still, sure they forget, or do not know what it is to be baptized into Christ.

Secondly; The Manner how he purifieth them. There is on Christ's part the Spirit, and Ordinances, and his Merit reacheth to both; and on our part Faith.