20 September 2020
On Baptism
Happy is our sacrament of water, in
that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and
admitted into eternal life! A treatise on this matter will not be
superfluous; instructing not only such as are just becoming formed (in the
faith), but them who, content with having simply believed, without full
examination of the grounds of the traditions, carry
(in mind), through ignorance, an untried though probable
faith. The consequence is, that a viper of the Cainite heresy, lately
conversant in this quarter, has carried away a great number with her most
venomous doctrine, making it her first aim to destroy baptism. Which is quite
in accordance with nature; for vipers and asps and basilisks themselves
generally do affect arid and waterless places. But we, little fishes, after the
example of our ΙΧΘΥΣ Jesus Christ, are born in water, nor have we safety in
any other way than by permanently abiding in water; so that most monstrous
creature, who had no right to teach even sound doctrine, knew
full well how to kill the little fishes, by taking them away from the water!
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