Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."

CONCLUSION.

The Scripture facts brought together in these pages are a death-blow to Popery, they cut the main root of Popery, namely, baptismal regeneration by water; which is also the main root of Puseyism in the Church of England, but it is also to be found in Churches which pride themselves on their purity of doctrine. Here is a sample:

[Water] "Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptised into the visible Church, but also to be unto him a sign and seal * of the

*There is no text in the Scriptures which asserts that water baptism is either "a sign or seal of the

covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life; which sacrament is by Christ's own appointment to be continued in His Church until the end of the world." In the foregoing, the doctrine of baptismal regeneration by means of water baptism flourishes in full bloom, just as if it had been issued in the bull of some Pope. It is very possible some reader of these pages may not have seen the foregoing extract before, and may wonder where it is taken from. If the reader will examine the Con

covenant of grace," but the Scriptures plainly state that baptism of the Holy Spirit was a seal and sign to each of Christ's saints during the apostolic age, for each of these saints received the gift of tongues : Eph. 1. 13; iv. 30; 1 Cor. xiv. 22.

fession of Faith, issued by the celebrated Westminster Assembly, he will find that the foregoing extract is the first paragraph of the chapter on water baptism. Hence the great necessity there is for the wide circulation of these pages, to counteract Popery in all quarters, and help the Churches to advance to the time when Christ's saints in all parts of the world will unitedly believe in One Lord, one faith, one baptism."