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Admyt that wee haue but onely two suche Sacramentes, I demaund of thee in the first place, what Baptis∣me is.
This woorde properly declareth dipping into the water, & by consequent washyng away: of which sorte many were instituted in the lawe, Hebr. 9. 10. to whiche were added afterwardes the pharasaical washings, wherof mention is made in the 7. of Marke, vers 4. Now by the figure Antonomasia it is takē for the Sacrament, by which wee are
are openly professed to Christ. But by translation it setteth foorth the afflicti∣ons of the godly and some greate and greeuous calamities, yea and the crosse it selfe, as it is taken. Luke. 12. 50. peraduenture fetching the Metaphor from thence, for that in many places of the Psalmes especially are vnder∣stoode by the name of waters and of gulphes, miseries, wherewith a man is as it were swalowed vp. To be short, it is taken for the powring foorth of the giftes of the holy Ghost, as Acts. 1. 5. and for the doctrine of Iohn who first baptised: as Acts 18. 25. & 19. 3.
This figure is a chaunging or putting of a neare name in signification for the naturall name it selfe.