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or transported, will dread a future State and keep within Bounds, if not hope for a State of Happiness and turn good Chriftians. You will become a Terror to those who lately exposed their own and your Order. The Gentry, nay Commonalty will reverence and love you, and not grudge to pay what is fettled for your Support. The Qualifications for Men in Orders, in Offices, and in every Station, will be which are most learned and the best Christians. The ftupid Stuff they have called Philosophy, as it begun and is built upon Non-entities will end fo, and let all built upon it, drop down with it, into their infinite Vacuum, and fall with their infinite Imaginations, Unnaturals, Non-entities and Nonfenfe.

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have from Scripture proved the Being of the Effence and the three Perfons in it, and in general the Powers and Benignity in them; and I have proved the Being of the Archtype, the Substance of the Names, and the three Modes of Existence by which they are denominated; and in general the Mechanical Powers in them. I have fhewed the State Mankind was in at firft; and the State they were in by their Fall. I am next in Duty and Gratitude

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bound to fhew what the eternal Three under the Denomination of Aleim have done to retrieve Men from the State they had fallen into; and what State they have put those into who are willing to acknowledge their Condition and to accept of their Interpofition; and this, as the Reft by proper Types, as Water, Creatures, Blood, Perfumes, &c. and at laft by real Completion, in the Body and Blood of Chrift; by comparing the Ideas taken from the material Types with the Actions performed by Jehovah incarnate upon the Soul and Body of

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In the first Part I intended to have taken Things in their Order; but I was called upon and forced to publish so much of what concerned the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper from p. 294. to the End, to demolish the Attempts which had been made to make that Sacrament of no Effect, by fhewing its true Intent, and 'hinted that many Things were to be done by Chrift before he could qualify Man to take the Benefit of that Sacrament, which may be put to their proper Places in the next Edition.

As Baptism naturally precedes that Sacrament, and as the Part which Christ was to perform for Man to qualify him to eat that Supper effectually is nearly related to or of the fame Species with Baptism, I shall treat of them together.

As many Ceremonies were performed by the Believing Jews which are not renewed or reinforced

forced by the written Law; I fuppofe Baptism by Water was one of them, notwithstanding that Circumcifion appears to be the Ceremony of Institution into that Church, because typical Purification was the Qualification to admit Men to enter the Courts, Sacrifice, &c. and though the first be not mentioned; as (when any of them were polluted) the Form of cleanfing them is renewed, I take it for granted from Hints that the firft was practifed before they could enter, &c. as If. lii. 15. He fall Sprinkle many Nations. lix. 5. That which is Sprinkled breaketh out into a Viper. Ezek. xvi. 4. Speaking of the Jewish Church, the Spouse, at her first Formation, Thy Navel was not cut. (Quer. if alluding to Circumcifion) neither was thou washed in Water to fupple thee: thou was not falted at all, thou hadft no Faith nor Hope; nor fwadled at all, alluding to the Garments of Christ's Righteousness, &c. which form us into his Image and hide our Nakedness. ver. 9. Then washed Ithee with Water: yea Ithroughly washed away thy Bloods (from Father and Mother) from thee. xxxvi. 25. Then will I Sprinkle clean Water upon you, and you shall be clean from all your Filthiness; and from all your Idols will I cleanfe you. The Jews confefs that when they initiated Profelytes of the Gentiles, they baptised them.

So, though Sprinkling with Blood be renewed, I think it was not mentioned before.

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