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Yet he would draw forth some out of the multitude, so that no one may escape the shame but he who believes on Christ. So Christ explains Himself in the last of Mark: "Whoever believes and is baptised shall be saved; but he who believes not shall be damned;" in which words, moreover, He accords with the prophets.
Cortes gave one of these women to each of his captains. These were the first Christian women in New Spain. The young native who was baptised by the name of Donna Marina was a woman of high rank, which she shewed in her and appearance, of a beautiful person and countenance, a quick genius and high spirit, and rendered very essential services in the sequel of our expedition.
'By a layman, he says, 'I mean one who fulfils the duties of Church membership one who is baptised into the Church, who has been confirmed if he has reached years of discretion, and who is a communicant. A roll of Church members, he suggests, should be kept in each parish, on which should be entered the name of each confirmed person, male or female.
This Brother was born in the town of Ummen and baptised in the church of St. Bridget: but when his parents removed to Zwolle, he being a youth of good disposition began to attend the school under Master John Cele, and earnestly to profit thereby.
To some He has commanded the estate of matrimony, to others the estate of the clergy, to others, again, the estate of the rulers, and to all He has commanded that they shall toil and labor to kill the flesh and accustom it to death, because for all such as are baptised their baptism has made the repose, the ease, the plenty of this life a very poison, and a hindrance to its work.
Fancy taking Madge to Clapham in a nice white dress it should be white, thought Selina- -and presenting her as a saved lamb! The very next night she began, 'I suppose your father is a foreigner? 'No, he is an Englishman. 'But if he is an Englishman you must have been baptised, or sprinkled, or immersed, and your father and mother must belong to church or chapel.
For thou shalt be a witness for him to all men, of the things which thou hast seen and heard. And now why delay? arise, to be baptised, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.
They believe in eternal election, free justification, ultimate glorification; they have a firm notion that they are a special people, known before all time; that not one of them will be lost; and they differ from the General Baptists, so far as discipline is concerned, in this they reject "open communion," will allow no membership prior to dipping; or, to quote the exact words of one of them, who wrote to us the other day on the subject, and who paled our ineffectual fire very considerably with his definition "All who enter our pail must be baptised."
He landed somewhere on the Gulf of Nicoya, near which he entered the country of a powerful chief, after whom the gulf was named. Nicoya entertained the Spaniards courteously, supplied them with food, and embraced the Christian religion, being baptised himself along with all his people, six thousand in number.
"For your sake, Miriam," he answered slowly, "I am prepared to be baptised into your faith. Let this show you how much I love you." "It does not show that you love the faith, Caleb, nor if you did love it could I love you. Jew or Christian, I cannot be your wife." He turned his face to the wall and for a while was silent. Then he spoke again. "Miriam, so be it. I will still save you.
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