Regeneration in baptism, a sermon

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Page 10 - So he turned and went away in a rage. 13 And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then when he saith to thee, Wash and be clean?
Page 10 - Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean?
Page 12 - God's house, the first apparent beginning of life, a seal perhaps to the grace of election before received, but to our sanctification here a step that hath not any before it.
Page 10 - If Christ himself which giveth salvation do require baptism, it is not for us that look for salvation to sound and examine him, whether unbaptized men may be saved, but seriously to do that which is required, and religiously to fear the danger which may grow by the want thereof.
Page 9 - And now why tarriest thou ? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Page 11 - For as we are not naturally men without birth, so neither are we Christian men in the eye of the Church of GOD but by new birth ; nor according to the manifest ordinary course of divine dispensation new born, but by that baptism which both declareth and maketh us Christians.
Page 10 - Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God : and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child h and he was clean.
Page 16 - Gospel, that as it discovereth sin within us, so it propoundeth a remedy unto us. While we are in this life encompassed with flesh, while the allurements of the world, while the stratagems of Satan, while the infirmities and corruptions of our nature betray us to the transgression of the law of God, we are always subject to offend i John i. 8. (from whence whosoever saith that he hath no sin is a liar...
Page 9 - Thirdly, unless as the Spirit is a necessary inward cause, so water were a necessary outward mean to our Regeneration, what construction should we give unto those words wherein we are said to be new born, and that even of water ? Why are we taught, that with water God doth purify and cleanse His Church?
Page 14 - After we have received the Holy Ghost, we may depart from grace given, and fall into sin, and by the grace of God we may arise again, and amend our lives.

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