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Water, his abiding there for fome time, and his riiing up again,,
thereby reprefeiicing Chrift's Death, Burial, and Refurredicn,
Dr. Nicholfon, laU Lord Bifljop of Giouceflcr.
In his Etpfithn cf the Chmh-Catechifm^'hk\ in JP^^. 174.
And the ancient manner in Baptifm, the putting the Perfon
Baptized under the Water, and then taking him out .again, did.
well fet out thefe two Ads, ilic firfl his dying, the fecond his
rifing again.- And in. the fame Page, upon Co/. 2. 12. hefaitii,
In the Grave with Chrift we wenj: not, for our Bodies were nor,
could not be buriedwith his ; but in our Baptifm, by a kind of
Analogy or Refemblance, while our Bodies are under the Water,
we may be laid to be buried with him.
Dr. Fowler, prejent LordBiff}op of
Gloueefier.
In his Scope of the Chrifiian Religm, upon Row. 6. 4. faith,
Chriftians being plunged into the Water in Baptilin, fignifieth
their undertaking and obliging themfelves, in a fpiricual Senfe,
to die and be buried with Jefus Chrift, that fo anfwerably to his
holy and godly Life.
Refurreftion, they may live a
Dr. Tillotfon,
late Archbifl}Op of Cmterhury.
Jn his Sermon upon 2 Tim. 2. 19. faith. Anciently thofe who
were Baptized put off^eir Garments, which fignified the putting
off the Body of Sin ^ j^d were immerfed and buried in
the Witer, to reprefent the Death of Sin ; and then did rife up
again out of the Water, to fignifie their Entrance upon a new
Life. And to thefe Cuftemsthe Apoftle alludes, Rom, (5. 4.
Dr. Jer. Taylor, late Lord Bifiop of Down.
In his Du^or Dubitantiunty lib. 9. cap. 4. faith, The Cuftom'
of the ancient Church was -not Sprinkling, but Immernon, in
Purfuance of the fenfe of the word BcfTTTJ^ovTi^, both in the
Commandment and Example of our blelfed Saviour. And this
agrees with the Myftery of the Sacrament it lelf^ for we are
buried with* him in' Baptifm (faith the Apoftle.) The eld Man is
buried and drowned in the Immerfion -" Water ^
and when
the Baptized Perfon is hfted up from the Water, icTeprefents
the Refurre^on of the New Man to fJewnefs of Life.
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