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than any of thile. - 160 ore We 53: icoparay every hour £ V/hich incl:neth many good Interpre- ter5 T0 think, that the Bapritra here mentioned 1s, Char Baptiſm with Blozd mentioned by our Saviour, Mare. 20. 22,23. and 1o the ſenſe 15 no more, than it there be no Relurrection of the dead, why do we dic daily ? Why ore wekilled all the day long ? For we do that Th hop- of a bg Reſurrection. The only Objections againſt this arc, 21, That none but Chrilt himſelf uterh the word 1n this lente, (which ſcemerh a light exception. ) «. That UTS? VEHGHy 1s hardly c:pable of thar fente ; but yer our Learr::d Dr.- L:ghrfoot brings ap- railels of ſuch an uſage of the Piepoſition our of the LXX. Others
obſerve, that the Apoſtle, 1n this whole Chapter, 1s diſcourſing of
the ReſurreFion of Believers unto life, and they are ſuch dead alone, that he here ſpeaketh of, for whom he taith any were baptized. Now ir 15 Plain from Scripture, that Baptiſm is a Seal of the RelurreQton, mifying to Believers, that they ſhould be made partakers of the 1eathand Refurre&ion of Chrilt, ( the RefurreQion being ſtrongly proved from God's Covenant, of which Baptitm is a Seal, Zzke 29. 37, 38. } and being fo, it confirmed the Covenant, not only ro the perſons baptized, but to the whole Church, as well the Triumphanr as the Mil:rant part ofit ; as well with reference to thole of it that were dead, as thoſe that were living. So rhat fo often as Baptiſm was adminiftred in the Church, fo ofren God repeated the Covenant made to his whole Church, that he was the God of Eclievers and of their Seed : So that all who to this day are baptized, are baptized tor the dead, that is, tor the confirmation of Gods Covenant to his whole Church, as well that part of it which 15 dead, as that part
which is yer alive; and 1t teſtifieth, that thoſe that {l-ep in Chriſt |
{ilthoveh dead) yet live in the promile of the Refurrection, becauſe God is their God, and he 15 not the God of the dead, bur of the :ving, as our Saviour ſpeaketh in Luke 20. 38. In this variety a- mong?t Learned men about the true tente of this place, I ſhall lzave rhe Keader to ht own judgment ; although tro me the two lait ſeem to bs moſt probabl:.
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2 We are the veri:t Fools in Nature, if there be no RetuwreGion | ot Believers unto Lite ; tor it 6+ in the firm belict and hopes of thar, | that we arc in danger of our hives, and all that we have, every hour | Ci Oui 11Ve*, oratellt by 7 92 P I RIS] $244 Mer proteit by || your tejaycing Waici I have in ; i Jeſus Our Lord, * 1 dic daily z.
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