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for tbcy drank of that same spiritual rook , tbat followed them , and that rock was Christ . ' In this passage [ adds Dr . M . ] . it is evident that St . Paul considered the being b aptized onto Moses , as typical of being baptized unto Christ /'
That the Margaret Professor chuses $ 0 to consider it , is sufficiently " evideot . " But there is no evidence whatever that the case was viewed by the Apostle in the same light . Let the reader determine , whether persons who had never heard of this theological
fiction of types would put such a construction upon Paul ' s words : it is an interpretation which , we venture to pronounce , they . will not bear . The passage has some obscurities : we may perhaps admit that it implies comparison apd resemblance ; concerning a . type however it is profbundry silent .
Tqe existence of proselyte baptism among the Jews , must not be assumed ( 5 ) as an indubitable fact ; writers of eminent impartiality and erudition * having called it in question . Conceding , nevertheless , to Dr . M . that
this was one of their customs , it is altogether irrelevant to remind us that they appear to have generally \ considered the passage of . their forefathers through the red sea , not as a mere insulated historical fact , but as something representative of admission to the divine
favour , by baptism" W h en we i n q u i re into the doctrine of the Scriptures , on this or any other matter , the comments of the Jewish Rabbins can be of no authority : in truth , the language of
Mairrionides , as quoted b y Whitby ( in toe : ) , conveys no further idea than that ° » an imagined resemblance between the passage of the red sea and the rite tf naptism : and this is the sum of "hitby ' s own commentary on the verse . But if this text will not sustain w > Marsh ' s inference , atill less sup-JWcan he acquire from the words ° i Paul in the passages which he pro-<*<* lsto cite . f It is a mere assump-Jjon that , when the Apostle speaks of apUsm , any . reference is intended to ^ emorable event in the Jewish his-^ J 7 : nis language and his argument X ^ suc " explanation . , ^ P ^ then are we from cc here "
i Jf In Tfctttcitlar , - Ufardner . Works . Vol . 1 Tfe ^ * ' - ¦ Gai . tii .-37 . Actsxxii . It * .
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having •* another instance of type and antitype , ratified b y the authority of a divine Apostle , in all their various - relations , " that , if we will onjy < be content to make this sacred author his own interpreter , we shall be -sensible of his being a total stranger to the comparatively modern doctrine . * ' of type and antitype ! " " ' r We have no inclination to become
p arties in the controversy now carrying on within the pale of " die Church of England" on baptism and regeneration . The Margaret Professor takes occasion to communicate to his auditors and his readers his thoughts concerning it : ' * if , " says he , " we detach regeneration from
baptism , we not onl y fajl into the absurdity of making the outward act a visible sign of nothing to be signified * but we destroy the sacrament of baptism as a sacrament altogether "— -ariM , again , * they who wilfully and deliberately detach regeneration from baptism , impugn essentially the doctrine of our Established Church ,
inasmuch as they impugn it in one of our holy sacraments . " Such then is the claim of the * ' Established Church " - — to bestow regeneration by means of baptism : * we are less astonished at her preferring the claim than at the difference of judgment among her sons respecting the import of her articles . The disputants might be seasonably employed in ascertaining the sense of the term " regeneration " in the Scriptures . It is deserving of remark that words which are sufficiently current in systems of theology , rarely present themselves in the New Testament . This is true of the
expression before us : we meet with i , t in only two passages , J in neither of which does it describe a personal and moral change , but an improvement in point of religious knowledge and privileges . Dr . Marsh does not reason in a
manner worthy of himself till he dismisses the subject of types and antitypes . When , apparently unwilling to relinquish it , he asks ( 16 ) , " Who would deny that the sacrifice of the paschal lamb is declared in the New Testament to be a prdfiguration of the death of Christ > " \ ye reply , by
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Review . — -Marsh ' s Lectures- Parf fV , 599
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1816, page 599, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2457/page/35/
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