body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free ; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit:" and this he says of all the visible members of Christ's body0. Again, speaking of the whole nation of Israel, infants as well as adults, he says, " They were all baptized unto Moses, in the cloud, and in the sea ; and did all eat the same spiritual meat ; and did all drink the same spiritual drink ; for they drank of that Spiritual Rock that followed them : and that Rock was Christv." Yet behold, in the very next verse he tells us, that " with many of them God was displeased, and over- threw them in the wilderness." In another place he speaks yet more strongly still : "As many of you," says he, " as are baptized into Christ, have put on Christ*." Here we see what is meant by the expression " baptized into Christ :" it is precisely the same expression as that before mentioned, of the Israelites being " baptized unto Moses ;" (the pre- position els is used in both places ;) it includes all that had been initiated into his religion by the rite of baptism : and of them universally does the Apostle say, " Theij have put on Christ." Now I ask, Have not the persons who scruple the use of that prayer in the Baptismal Service, equal reason to scruple the use of these different expressions ?
Again — St. Peter says, " Repent, and be baptized every one of you for the remission of sins1;" and in another place, " Baptism doth now save uss." And speaking elsewhere of baptized persons who were un- fruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ, he says, "He hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins*." Does not this very strongly countenance the idea which our Reformers enter- tained, That the remission of our sins, as well as the regeneration of our souls, is an attendant on the baptismal rite ? Perhaps it will be said, that the inspired writers spake of persons who had been bap- tized at an adult age. But, if they did so in some
0 1 Cor. xii. 13—27. p 1 Cor. x. 1—4. i Gal. iii. 27.
* Acts ii. 38, 39. s 1 Pet. iii. 21. l 2 Pet. i. 9.