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An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Author:Robert Barclay Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE TWELFTH PROPOSITION. CONCERNING BAPTISM. jy s. As there is one Lord and one faith, so there is one .'vi2]! baptism ; which is not the putting away of t... more »he filth Gai. ui.27. ofthefiesh, but the answer of a good conscience before Johnutso' God, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And this baptism is a pure and spiritual thing, to wit, the baptism of the spirit and fire, by which we are i Cor.i.i7. buried with him, that being washed and purged from our sins, we may walk in newness of life ; of .which the baptism of John was a figure, which was commanded for a time, and not to continue for ever. As to the baptism of infants, it is a mere human tradition, for which neither precept nor practice is to be found in all the scripture. THE THIRTEENTH PROPOSITION. CONCERNING THE COMMUNION, OR PARTICIPATION OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST. icor.x.16, The communion of the body and blood of Christ is inward and spiritual, which is the participation of his 33b35L32' esh and blood, by which the inward man is daily i Cor. v. s. nourished in the hearts of those in whom Christ dwells; of which things the breaking of bread by Christ with his disciples was a figure, which they even used in the church for a time, who had received JotondH0' te substance, for the cause of the weak; even as is. ''"' abstaining from things strangled, and from blood; Jamesv.14 the washing one another's feet, and the anointing of the sick with oil; all which are commanded with no less authority and solemnity than the former; yet seeing they are but the shadows of better things, they cease in such as have obtained the substance. chapter{Section 4THE FOURTEENTH PROPOSITION. CONCERNING THE POWER OF THE CIVIL MAGISTRATE IN MATTERS PURELY RELIGIOUS, AND PERTAINING TO...« less