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It is the first, or initiating sacramēt of the new testamēt, or a sacred action cōsisting of the washing with water, & the word, wherby, according to the appointmēt & institutiō of Christ a christiā man either of riper yeers professing Christ, or an infant of the faithfull, is drenched, washed or sprinckled in simple cleare water by the minister of the Church, calling vpon the name of the father, the Son, & the holy ghost. (The body washed with cleane water) as we
read in Act. 8.19. was done by Philip, to represent the shedding of Christs bloud vpon the crosse, & to confirme truly and effectually through all our life the couenant of grace made long before, & to exhibit, & seal to the beleeuer, righteousnes, or the washing away of his sins obtained by Christ his bloud: to testify his adoption in∣to the couenant of grace, his engrafting into Christ, the regenera∣tion & renuing of his nature, or repentance vnto amendmēt by the grace of the holy ghost procured vnto him by the same bloud: his communion or fellowship with Christ in all his goodnes, and heauenly inheritance: & ioynt free denization among the citizens of the visible Church, & of the kingdom of heauen, to be held of them in the number of the children of God, & to enioy the same priuiledges which they do. To witnes also, that being in like ma∣ner baptised, he promiseth himselfe to be willing, to be reckoned among the people of God, to defie Sathan, sin, the world, the flesh & al false sects, & promiseth & professeth that he wil liue to Christ to the glory of God. Or thus, baptisme is a sacrament or seale of the righteousnes of faith, that is of our entrance, or beginning of our incorporation with Christ, of the forgiuenes of our sins, of the gift of the holy ghost, & of regeneration, whereby we are seale•• vnto Christ, incorporated & buried with Christ, that we die vnto sin by the power of the death of Christ, & that we rise againe to newnesse of life by the vertue of his resurrectiona, that we are bound to the true worship of God alone, to innocency of life, and vnity of the Church, wheof it is called the stipulation of a good conscience b, that is, a mutuall obligation of God, & of man bap∣tised; of God, witnessing that he receiueth the person baptised in∣to grace, and of the person baptised couenanting with God, that he will duly worship and loue him, wherof it commeth that none are admitted to the holy supper of the Lord, but such as are first baptised, because he must first be admitted into the church before he be nourished in the samec.
Rom. 6.3, 4.5 1 Pet. 3.22.
Mat. 28.19 Act. 2.41 Ioh. 4.1.2 Mat. 3.11 Ioh, 3.5, 7 Gal, 3, 27 1 Cor, 6, 11 10.2 Tit, 3.5 Eph, 5.26