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believed or hoped in Mofes, as the Ark preserved those who came into it for a Stock to people this Earth; fo Baptifm preferves those who come into it from Time to Time, to people Heaven.

At the Flood the Waters mortified the Wicked, the Unbelievers, and preferved in the Ark the Believers, and fo renewed the Race of Men; fo mortified those who were in, or who followed, the Flesh; and quickened them who were in, or followed, the Holy Spirit: So even those who were faved according to the Opinions of the Flesh were dead, and alive by the Directions of the Spirit. Before a Man is baptized he is subject to eternal Death, to Hell and the Devil; when he is baptized by one who has Right to adminifter it, he is not only washed from his Sins upon Condition he perfeveres, but is initiated a Subject of Chrift, and entitled to be a Subject in his Kingdom: So the Type (faved) from temporal Death at the Flood, and (entitled) Believers to live and enjoy what was intended for them, poffeffed by the few, eight, here and hereafter.

So the Ifraelites who followed Mofes out of Egypt, and those who perfevered were to be initiated by Circumcifion; were by the Sea and the Cloud baptized to Mofes, the Vice-Aleim, from Slavery of Pharoah, to a Type of Heaven, and to worship the true Aleim, and to the Enjoyment hereafter; and the unbelieving Egyptians were drowned, made dead in the Red-Sea;

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and the Unbelievers, who did not conform, were destroyed by him in the Cloud.

I am doubtful whether John's Baptism was an Initiation or a Renewal, a Purification as the Water with the Ashes of the Heifer was under the Law, preparatory, that they might enter the Courts, partake of the typical Sacrifices, &c. So John's, that they might come into the Society of the Preachers, be baptifed by them, and partake of the Benefits of Chrift's Sacrifice.

Though Chrift's Command to baptife was fufficient to renew or inftitute Baptism by Water; and though it be faid, (truly at that Time) John. iv. 2. Jefus baptifed not, but his Difciples. Yet I think, the Apostle St. John who has omitted the Inftitution of the Lord's Supper in Chap. xiii. during that Supper fhews the Inftitution of Baptism by Water, both in Form, and in the Declaration of its Effects by Chrift's Actions and Words, and though he washed their Feet, and Peter would have had him wafhed his Hands and his Head, yet Chrift's Answer fhews that the Application to any Part was effectual.

Alfo I am doubtful whether the Ancients did not wash their Feet: Qu. The Priefts when

* Exod. xxx. 19, 20. Aaron and his Sons fhall wash their Hands and their Feet thereat- when they come near to the Altar to minifter, to burn Offering made by Fire unto the Lord. So fhall they wafh their Hands and their Feet that they die not: and it fhall be a Statute for ever to them, to him and to his Seed throughout their Generations.

they went to facrifice. Qu. The Peoplefo to Feafts. So when they were married or went in to their Wives. Ruth iii. 3. 2 Sam. xi. 8. alluded to Pf. lviii. 10. He shall wash his Feet in the Blood of the Wicked; the Destruction of the Jews before he went in to the Spouse. This Institution was with clear Water, not with the old Ceremony of Salt and Water which the Romans have taken up. Salt is necessary still to be added to the Water, but for fuch as are at Age and capable of having Salt, it is to be in the Perfons not in the Water.

The Blood and Water, which was shed out of Chrift's Body, returned to his Body before his Refurrection; as the Parts of other Men's Bodies are to be collected for theirs at the general Refurrection, and his Body, Blood, &c. were changed and made immortal and glorious, and is now at the Right Hand of God.

Changed not as to Substance, but the Manner of its Support: here the fleeting changeable Powers of the Air fuftain the Body, by their Circumpreffure hold together the Parts or Atoms of which it is compofed; and it is by their Agency all the Functions of the Body are performed: Hereafter Jehovah will fupport us, in Him is no Variableness, nor Shadow of Turning; So the Parts or Atoms of which the Body is compofed cannot then be disjoined or feparated from each other, in other Words cannot corrupt or wear out ; this will make it an incorruptible fo immortal Body: as the Glory Jehovah is to be its Light, and with the Spirit Jehovah give it Life and fupport it in its Powers, that will make it a glorious and a fpiritual Body: thus the corruptible mortal Body will be changed into an incorruptible, immortal, glorious and fpiritual one.

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Chrift's Sacrifice fulfilled fo abolished all o ther Washings, Purifications, Sacrifices, Eating and Drinking or Partaking of them, and all other Species of Types: All the Things fignified by Types are now fpiritual; all the Reprefentations by Hieroglyphicks are now real. The real Oil was put upon Christ, and is in Degree now put upon us: the Type is useless; the Salt was in Christ, and is now in us, and need not be mixed with Water; (Outram de Sacrif. p. 86. 245. Heathens ufed Salt) and Water was fubftituted (inftead of Water and Salt, and of Water and Blood in the Types, and instead of the Water and Blood fhed out of his Side) in Baptifm outwardly; and in the Supper Bread [was fubftituted] inftead of Part of the Flesh of the Sacrifices, and Bread in the Types; and Wine, instead of the Wine which was offered in the Types, and instead of his Body inwardly. Instead of the Oil put upon the Sacrifice, we have the Influence of the Holy Ghost. Chrift by Water offers to cleanse us fpiritually; we by the Affiftance of the Holy Ghost are to mix it with Salt. He gives us by Bread and Wine, fpiritual Nourishment and Strength; we are to eat and drink them, and as aforefaid, mix them with Salt.

The Devils never suspected, and no Man could ever have imagined, if it had not been revealed to the Fathers, that facrificing of the Types with Salt, Hope, fhould be effectual to ; nay, except it had been revealed to the

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Humanity of Chrift, he could have hoped for nothing from suffering Punishment and Death; nor Man hoped for any Benefit by his fuffering; and as it is not revealed that Man fhall be pardoned for suffering in Purgatory, if there were any fuch Place; he cannot hope for any more Benefit (from fuffering there) than he can hope for by being punished in Hell.

So Faith, which comes by hearing of Revelation, is paying Honour to God, acknowledging his Power and Veracity: It comes by Conviction, fo Joh. xvii. 3. it is called Knowledge (to know) and is previous to Hope; The Devils believe and tremble, have no Room from Revelation for Hope, fo have none; fo none of that which Hope produceth, Charity.

Hope is Expectation of revealed Benefit from God; backward, to Pardon; forward, to Salvation; Faith entitles us, and Hope makes us ftrive to perform good Works to acquire a good Reward, a confiderable Degree of Glory, Hope therefore is the Tafte of Things hereafter, as the Relish of Meats which are agreeable to the Stomach and of good Digestion; so a selfish Virtue; but God loves Man, fo that he loves him for loving himself, as he is God's Creature ; much more when he is reftored to his Image. This was the in, the on, the Similitude of him, Chrift marked upon those who escaped at the Destruction of the Jews,'predicted Ezek. ix. 4. fo Antichrift Rev. xiii. gives his Mark.

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