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The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor (2); With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings
The Whole Works of the Right Rev Jeremy Taylor With a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings - 2 Author:Jeremy Taylor Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1850 Original Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Subjects: Theology Religion / Christianity / Anglican Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Christian Theology / History Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic Religion / Chris... more »tianity / Denominations Religion / Theology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: DISCOURSE VI. Of baptism. Part I. 1. When the holy Jesus was to begin His prophetical office, and to lay the foundation of His church on the corner-stone, He first tempered the cement with water, and then with blood, and afterwards built it up by the hands of the Spirit : Himself entered at that door by which His disciples for ever after were to follow Him ; for therefore He went in at the door of baptism, that He might hallow the entrance which Himself made to the house He was now building. 2. As it was in the old, so it is in the new creation ; out of the waters God produced every living creature : and when at first " the Spirit moved upon the waters," and gave life, it was a type of what was designed in the renovation. Every thing that lives now, " is born of water and the Spirit ;" and Christ, who is our Creator and Redeemer in the new birth, opened the fountains and hallowed the stream : Christ, who is our Life, went down into the waters of baptism ; and we, who descend thither, find the effects of life ; it is living water, of which whoso drinks needs not to drink of it again, for " it shall be in him a well of water, springing up to life eternalp." 3. But because every thing is resolved into the same principles from whence they are taken, the old world, which by the power of God came fro...« less