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Show JWEai-T- CSSfcSSt ' A Tjrp mMm CUKIED BY BAPTISM. TJ Lamsi e work. The glimpse of the high significance of this which becomes a Bt it. MJCHSI1L. Scripture. If the comparison is as is study of the tanas and figures here Itoow y not, that so many of iu m wr claimed, why do the advocates of this employed to give expression to this taplteed fate Jteua Christ were baptised Into big interpretation invariably leave out the experience of the soul, is our death? Therefore we are barfed with him by task. and the restrict crucifixion, analogy present baotiaoj Into death : that like & Christ was raised 1 hegir. by burial ? recalling your attention to cp from the dead by the glory of the Father, even to the 1 should watt newness also iu of life. we if For 9 distinction this Fourth. the between the baptism to interpretaobject we hare leva planted together in the llkene of tion that it confuses and confounds the and the burial. That which is done his death, we shall he also la the likeness at Us whore sacraments is not baptism. The burial by baptism by putting baptism tegarredien; knowing this, that mi id mm k craciHed with Mm, Out Os body of sia might be the Bible puts the Lords supper. In is effected by baptism; therefore, the dgtroy ed, that hear forth w abouhl not gem sia. the LordVsupper wo show forth the burial is not baptism. Baptism is the Bom. tI, Lords death. This is the design of the agent or instrument, and the burial is It is generally conceded, that, if imSupper. But this interpretation makes th$ result. This thought, that the burial mersion is taught in the Bible, it is here; baptism show forth or represent the is cot an act nor mi instrument, but a and, if it can riot be found here, but few death and burial of Christ. It places result or effect, is essential. Let it b persons will insist that it is the exclusive baptism where it does not belong, and clearly apprehended and borne in mind; mode of baptism. of much of gives it auneaning it was never intended for her is the star Thu imtnersionifct interpretation of to have; and, worse still, it destroys the the blundering of the inamersionists in this passage is well known. It assumes design ancf significance of the rite as their interpretation. Baptism is an teat baptism is a burial of the physical Christ ordained it. Baptism relates not action, a momentary action ; but the man in literal water; and it finds s to the death and burial of Christ, but to result, the burial,' is permanent. It is resemblance between this burial of the the office and work of the Holy Spirit. not temporary or momentary, but somebody in water and the burial of Christ This Is its fixed and invariable meaning, thing which must continue as long as we in the grave, and & resemblance between as we shall tee more fully In the direct remain dead unto sin and kike unto the emergence of the body from the exposition, w'hilc the LordVsupper Gad. j water and' the resurrection of Chris1 relates cnly to Christs death, and not to Then, the question arises, Is this a from the dead. It thus makes baptism the Holy Spirit. Baptism is the ordi- literal or a figurative: burial ? - Or per- re a representation of the burial and resur- nance of the p Holy Spirit, and the Supper haps this Aomt woM'b?3 mote clearly rection of Christ. I have several serious is the ordinance of Jesus Christ. Is the the ei,t if objections to this interpretation, and ilf. the body ia the water, But these matters will all eorae tip in fcWemtg will mention some of them, before takthe proper place, and we turn to a direct bfc is! i a, spirituU jresiltL rWght in the ing up my own exposition. examination of. the passage before us. .ptrlihirgktarsThe immerstopist, of First. I object to confounding. tbs The apostle had just spoken of the course, xsigtpjf In 'the, passage but The two burial with the baptism. lha body, by covering Ti reign of sin, on the one Land, and of a feral 1ujaV.c things are distinct, and should not be ihe "water. But Lff who reign of grace through righteousness, confounded. The terms are not synonyis lb alsw affirms to interpret the He had affirmed on the other hand. ought mous, msr are they interchangeable. It if passage . W just as 'that where" sin abounded is absurd to say we are immersed by an bra&dly literal a The and much abound more did "fruelfixiOd, the then, irawt reion, or that we are buried by a grace to an objection this doctrine planting;" arid"4hsjdsstb,f are all as burial; therefore the baptism is one anticipating literal &afv material as the u bnrixl. of the superabounding of grace, to the thing' and the burial is another thing. II belocg-t1 the it cams' W It Is by ha perpetration of this mistake' in sis, end thus tend- in same class, and ar descriptive of park continue that iftimersionists gather nearby all the licentiousness instead of holiness, he of the same process or experience, and comfurrt this Scripture affords them.' answers this objection, and shows that to separate them is to do violence to all Second. I object to this interprehis doctrine leads to holiness, and not to rules of interpretation, and common tation that it violates all rule and ausin. The answer which he presents to sense as well. But who can believe that thority by making some of the terms in this objection is, that all who come the crucifixion is a literal crucifixion this one process literal, and others of the literal man ? that the planting It makes the burial under the reigning, power of grace die is a literal figurative. O unto sin.'1 This thought of a death planting of the literal man ? literal, and the death, the planting, the death is the literal death unto sin is that which he enforces and and that and the crucifixion figurative. These elaborates throughout this chapter. of the literal man ? He who can believe terms are all predicated of the same Hence the language with which the all this must possess a stock of credulity subject, in the same passage, and What shall we say that rarely falls to the lot of reasoning describe different parts of one process chapter begins: then ? Shall we continue in sin, that men; and yet is is not a particle more or experience, and are therefore all i to hold that the grace may abound ? God forbid. absurd than it literal or all figurative. burialis while the crucifixion dead literal, to sin, live How shall we, that are Third. I object to this interpretation and death are therein ? Know ye not, that figurative. that it utterly mistakes the points of the any longer ; The true answer to the as of ..were into us so. baptised question conmany comparison which the apostle makes, his the death? of the were into nature will be burial Jesus Christ cerning baptised and substitutes for them other points of him Therefore we are buried with by found by ascertaining the subject of the comparison which are not in the passage, burial. What is it that is buried ? into etc. death, and could not have been in the writers baptism is a sense in which all that Everything in the passage mast hinge on There mind. It assume that the comparison suffered in redemption is made the answer to this question. The is between baptism and the burial and Christ to believers; and there is a sense says it is the body, the literal resurrection of Christ. It sees m the over all believers are united to man. If this turns out to be true, he in which act of putting the body under the water and so identified with him iu the gains a point; but it is a point which a representation of the burial of Christ; Christ, of the Biety that Christs brings trouble on every side. But let and, in the lifting of the body from the contemplation is attributed to them; so that us look a little. We never bury a man water, it sees the rising of Christ from suffering said that when Christ wa3 till he is dead. Hence, a burial always be it may the grave represented. This is the crucified, they were crucified with him; implies a death a previous death. If great point in the interpretation. If it is when he died, they died with him; when we Lear that a man has been buried, wrong here, it is wrong throughout; were buried with we need not be told that he had preand it is wrong here egregiousiy vrrong-Ther- o he was buried, they died. So in this Scripture. him ; and when he arose, they arose with viously is absolutely bo such comparison a to is him a but Here crucifixion, death, burial, and it implies a prepredicate in the passage. This will come out believers on of resurrection and vious death; but the previous death is burial, fully further along; but now I remark bold this grpund alone would require a expressed, as well as implied, and it is a that the comparison is not at all between exactual an is There unto sin. And that which dies is death indeed. baptism, on the on hand, and the burial figure transforreal the to be gained, subject cf the burial. There can be ami resurrection of Christ ok the other perience an of the snt no Christ, by question hero, t be identical thing image band. Baptism is not in the comparison mation his sufferings. or person, that dis ia the thing or person jn at 11. The comparison is wholly be. inward fellowship is made over by that is buried. Then, if we can find tww-the crucifixion, death, and burial When the redemption shares it, and out the subject of the death, we shall belie the that so ter of Christ, on the one side, and the faitiq carnal into the spiritual Lave found the subject of the burial. the from Mystical crucifixion, death, and burial passes ho come into fellowship with If it is tie body that dies, th literal that takes place iu us when we pass from life, then is made conformable man, n is the body that is buried; but tbs natural, the spiritual state, m the Christ's sufferings, Ids death, ami experiences the power if it is not the body that dies, it ia not oilier aide; and this comparison goes to rc&urrectica. This is a veritable the body that is buried. If it ia the his of far enough to take in the resurrection its soul that dies, the soul is buried. Or which has us f Christ, on one side, and the newness experience, its full development; and if it is neither the body bgf the soul of life ia which the Christian walk?, on growth, and in the that dies, literally, but something that th other. This blunder k a serious cue. this esverit tv is described When consideration. under pertains to either or both, the that It oh scum the meaning of the passage, him or and on, Christ, thing which dies whatever it is ravftUbe put destroys its beauty and hsrmoay, and apprufeend. in the subject ol the burial. Thu far, all bads honest people to ivnagins thrtthey enter into covenant with hiea, baptism, bare been buried with Christ, when vre solemnly engage to die unto sis, and is plain. But the question is. What is dies f It h ti the body; for it p ftey have not so stuck m esEgat & cudortika to v$rifo tb'v life-tim- BISHOP S. st S-- 6. tang-poi- - -- jbm-ia- l t - a w jxas-tag- s w wh-ri- o i4 I , kkv. ht Paul was yet alive in the body. It was not the for the soul was under going as experience that brought life, and not death. What, then, could it be ? The question is vital, and we must move cautiously in quest of the answer. The apostle Paul, in tnis Epistle, deals largly in personifications. Indeed, he personifies almost every thing lie mentions. The law, sin, death, life, grace, righteousness ell are personified; all these, in the vivid, animated style of the apostle, pass before us so living personalities, clothed with all tlie powers and passions of active intelligences. In this way the carnal ss&ture, the nxu al depravity f our being, is personified and denominated the old man, the This old man is the body of sin. aggregate or assemblage of the sinful lusts asijd affections of the unrenewed nature; apd the great problem in Christianity; and in human experience, is, as to the .way of subduing or triumphing over this old man within us. This is the point in the apostle's argument, and he hare teaches tnat the old man must be destroyed, or put to death by crucifixion. ihat ye put on the new wan, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. The antithesis is between old man the and the new roan, net between the body 8i the soul. The old man, like a garment worn out or polluted, is put off; and the new man, like a new gaiment, fresh and Thus the old clean, is put on. man, following the figure in the text, is crucified, and thereby put to death; Hiul, being dead, must be buried out of sight. This consummates the process, so far as tho old man is concerned. The old man does not rise, but th is found in newness of lif not ia that which who crucified. is The old man tas the body of sin, the body of flesh, the sins of the flesh; and as certainly as there is meaning in language this old man is the subject of the crucifixion, death, and burial mentioned in this passage of Scripture. Paul says (Galatians And they that nre Christs v, 24: have crucified the flesh with the affection and lusts;" that is, they have crucified the old man, the embodiment of ihe affections and lusts. What caa be plainer than this, or more in harmony with the whole tenor f apostolic teaching? But if I am right in this, it is evident that these terms arc all to be taken in th figurative sense, and the idea f a physical burial of the physical roan in physical element is as foreign to th passage as is the thought of burying a man in the moon. ensuing the . Now to the question, What is it that dies ? The answer is found in the manner of the death. How is it brought about ? The aposxte answers this right here in the text; and you observe I am not going abroad to gather into the text a foreed meaning. Right hero we read that the death which' precedes the burial, the death of the subject of the burial, is brought about just as Christs death was brought about by crucifixion- Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that beneefoite we should sot serve sin. Here it is. It is not the body that is crucified, nor the sow.1, literally, but the old man. The old man is crucified, dead, and buried crucified with Christ, dead with Christ, sad buried with Christ. And here he old man is left. He is put off, not to be put on again. He is buried, not to be unburied again. He is not in the resurrection. That which is buried must remain buried. This is the death unto sin, with its cause, process, and result. new man, To AN be , Contitnttd. BLASPHEM EH BROUGHT TO BOOK. Boonton, N. .T., is in Morris County nine miles from Morristown, the county seat. 0. II. Reynolds set up a tent in Boonton, in which he denounced and blasphemed God, and attacked and ridiculed Christianity. The people would not endure it, and a disturbance followed. Reynolds was still more abusive. He went to Morristown and distributed parnj blots full of Buniiar matter, and adorned with pictures representing the Catholic priest of Boonton as dealing out swill to a lot of hogs, and the Methodist minister as leading out slop to another lot, while himself f Reynolds), with a benign expression on Ids countenance, was casting pieatls before the afore-saiswine. Ruder an ancient law he was indicted for blasphemy JI is trial occurred ou Wendosdav and Thursday of last week. I ngorsofi was his counsel. The pamphlet and abundance of proof that circulated it were presented by the prosecution. No witnesses were called for the defense. Col. Ingersoll spoke about three hours, delivering the substance of of one of his lectures, and parts of two or three more. He tried to make the jury believe that this was a historic case, and that fiee thought was on trial. The prosecutor told the jury that the simplequcetion was, had the defeiubi&t been guilty of blasphemy under the law? The charge of the Judge vs as a sys tern a lie and thorough reply to every point made by the Colonel Ingeisjll, perfect illustration of the ancient An eloquent man is known' far and near, but a man of understanding discerneth when he fclippeth. He pointed out that the jury had nothing to do with ' the wisdom of the Grand Jury in. finding an indictment, nor the motives of the witnesses before the Grand d But what does all this mean ? Can it be possible that this crufixion of the old man must come into the account ? A moments reflection will satisfy any one unless it be some one whose creed is ia danger that this whole experience is sue process given in the inverted order; the apostle beginning with the result, and tracing it backward to the But the question may starting-poin- t. arise as to whether we have taken the right view of the old man. May it not be that the old man . means the body, the physical nature ? If so, the body must be crucified before it become the subject of burial; and if the burial means an immersion iu water, none but a dead body is fit for that ceremony ! We learn elsewhere what the epos tie meant by tbs old man. We read the following on this point, in Colosniuns iii, But now ye also put off oil these; anger, wrath, malice blasphemy, filthy communication out of , Jury, nor with the law 3-- 10: as a measure of sense; that the law was not obsolete for it had been enacted in 1844, and m tho revision of the laws m JS74 it wm your mouth. Lit not one to another, allowed to remain; and the only quesguilts seeing tlat ye have put off the old man tion was, had the defendant be with bis deeds; and have put on the new of speaking evil of the name of Gocl and of the Christian religion, man, which is renewed in knowledge an act adapted and soSeiided performing to armvf after th mage of him that created the majority of fcho cemmuniiy? him. Here is the old man, and he , The jury fotiad the defendant guiRm t has be& put off, but the body ia not snd he was fined $25 and einsis. ia not wise to n force these laws for It i put off; neither tke old man put case-but, aa ihe ATrvr Fer' n sjraia, but the new ra&n is put a every Ti'Ats observes, it is well that fhr in his pluc. To the effect we should be some means of suppressing in That noisy &&d offensive blackguard Uk. reni, Epheriaas iv, off ib Ibrsm con- Ibsvooid, and whether ha be supy. pat foewsiag &a a blasphemer s merely a hi versation the m which i corrupt pressed plain blackguard Is a matter of v&rf to the deeejiful lusts; and fee Chtvstf&n eonMsqueovcR. ia the pri r:f of rovr mind: tuti , 22-2- - 4: , j |