St. Paul speaks of circumcision, which was a sign and seal only? Or how should the ordinance of Christ lead men away from Christ? When Baptism was preached faithfully, the memory of it was the memory of Christ and of His passion. "St. Paul showeth," says St. Chrysostom[1], "that the blood and the water are one. For Christ's baptism is His passion also;" or, as he says again[2], "What the cross and grave was to Christ, that has Baptism been made to us." "The sacrifice of our Lord's passion every man then offers for himself, when he is dedicated in the faith of His passion," says St. Augustine[3]: and again, "The sacrifice of the Lord is then in a manner offered for each, when by being baptized he is sealed in His name;" and again[4], "No man may in any wise doubt, that each of the faithful then becomes a partaker of the Body and Blood of the Lord, when in Baptism he is made a member of Christ." "We[5] are washed in the passion of the Lord," says Tertullian." "In Baptism," again says St. Chrysostome[6], "we are incorporate into Christ, and made flesh of His flesh, and bone of His bone." The body of the regenerated (i.e. by Baptism) becomes "the flesh of the crucified," saith St. Leo[7]; and again[8], "Thou art bedewed with the blood of Christ when thou art baptized into His death." "Let us be washed in his blood," saith St. Bernard[9]. "By these few it may appeare," says Bishop Jewel[10], "that Christ is present at the Sacrament of Baptisme, even as He is present at the Holy Supper: unless ye will say, we may bee made flesh of Christ's flesh, and bee washt in His blood, and bee partakers of Him, and have Him 'present,' without His 'presence.' Therefore Chrysostome, when he had spoken vehemently of the Sacrament of the Supper, hee concludeth thus. Even so is
- ↑ Ep. ad Hebr. Hom. 16. quoted by Bp. Jewel, Replie to Harding, p. 285.
- ↑ Ib. p. 287.
- ↑ Expos. Inchoat. ad Romanos, ib. p. 422.
- ↑ Serm. ad Infant. ib. p. 21, 239, 292, 449.
- ↑ De Baptismo, ib. p. 287.
- ↑ In Ep. ad Ephes. ib. 292.
- ↑ De passione Donmi. S. 4. ap. Jewel, Defence of Apologie, p. 221.
- ↑ In Serm. de 4ta feria. c. 1. ib. p. 20.
- ↑ Bern. Super Missus est Hom. 3. ibid.
- ↑ L.c.
