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The Arians had no just reason to draw such a signification from the ceremony of trin-immersion, yet was it abolished when those heretics did so abuse it.
The very external use, therefore, of any sacred ceremony of human institution, is not to be suffered in the matter of worship, when in respect of this external use we are sorted with idolaters. 3. Why was trin-immersion in baptism, and fasting upon the Lord’s day forbidden, for that the heretics did so?
The Rhemists think, that meats of themselves, or of their own nature, do not defile, “but so far as by accident they make a man to sin; as the disobedience of God’s commandment, or of our superiors, who forbid some meats for certain times and causes, is a sin.” And they add, “that neither flesh nor fish of itself doth defile, but the breach of the church’s precept defileth.” Aquinas defendeth that trin-immersion is not de necessitate baptismi, only he thinks it a sin to baptise otherwise, because this rite is instituted and used by the church.
If it were so, yet forasmuch as Papists draw them to a confirmation of their superstitions, we should abstain from them as appearances of evil. When the Arians abused trin-immersion in baptism, to signify three natures of the three persons, Pope Gregory, and the fourth council of Toledo ordained, that in Spain, thrice washing should no longer be used in baptism, but once only.
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