The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

VERS. V.

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Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit.

HE tells him that the Jew himself cannot be admitted into the Kingdom of the Messiah, unless he first strip himself of his Judaism by Baptism, and then put off his carnal, and put on a spiritual state. That by water here, is meant Baptism, I make no doubt: nor do I much less question, but our Saviour goes on from thence to the second Article of the Evangelical Doctrine. And as he had taught, that toward the participation of the benefits to be had by the Messiah, it is of little or of no value, for a man to be born of the seed of Abraham, or to be originally an Israelite, unless he was also born 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or from above; so he now further teacheth him, that this admission is not to be obtained,

but by an absolute renunciation of Judaism, and being Baptized into the profession of the Gospel. For the tenor of Christian Baptism, runs point blank against Judaism. The Jewish Religion taught justification by works; but Evangelical Baptism obliged to Re∣pentance, and alarum'd the sinner to look elsewhere for remission of sins; so that, to a Jew, Baptism was indispensibly necessary, in order to his admission into the Kingdom of the Messiah, that by that Baptism of his, he might wholly divest himself of his Jewish state.