Thursday, December 13, 2007

Puritan Wisdom

On Matthew 3:11 --

"Whosoever are baptized inwardly by the Holy Spirit, are also baptized with fire, that is, by a more penatrative power and vertue, then what water at first doth show; which vertue must go through the whole man, unto through mortification of sin; that is it which by way of explanation is imported, when he saith, with the Holy Ghost and with fire, taking baptism by fire here, not for any extraordinary gift of miracles, but for that which is common to the Regenerate."

-- David Dickson, Matthew, 26.

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