01.08. An Answer To A Welsh Clergyman's Twenty contd

5thly, "Water in baptism, he says, is but a sign and seal; a little of it is sufficient to signify the gifts which Christ has purchased, as a small quantity of bread and wine does in the other sacrament, and as a small seal is as much security as a larger one." But as baptism is no sign of the things before-mentioned, so it is no seal, as we have seen, of the covenant of grace; wherefore these similitudes are impertinent to illustrate this matter: and though a small quantity of bread and wine is sufficient in the other sacrament, to signify our partaking of the benefits of the death of Christ by faith; yet a small quantity of water is not sufficient to signify his sufferings and death, with his burial and resurrection, themselves. (The Sermon is incomplete beyond this point . . . ed.)

ENDNOTES:

[1] 1 Peter 2:13; Romans 13:1-2; Titus 3:1-2.

[2] See the Introduction to the Baptism of Infants a reasonable Service, etc. to which this is an answer.

[3] This also is an answer to what the author of The baptism of Infants a reasonable Service suggests in p. 7, 12, 16.

[4] Which may likewise be an answer to the same thing hinted by the author of The baptism of Infants a reasonable Service, p. 28. Genesis 3:15.

[5] Let this also be observed, together with the answer to the first argument of the author of The baptism of Infants a reasonable Service. etc. p. 14.

[6] Vide Ibid, p. 24.

[7] Compare Exodus 1:1; Exodus 1:7 with Genesis 46:5 and Genesis 45:18-19; compare 1 Samuel 27:3 with 1 Samuel 30:6; 1 Timothy 3:3; Genesis 30:30; Numbers 3:15.

[8] 1 Corinthians 16:15. Let this be observed, in answer to what the author of The baptism of Infants a reasonable Service, etc. has advanced in p. 43.