The flood in which the antediluvians perished was a figure of baptism. Eight souls were saved in the ark by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us. The flood consisted of water, even so does baptism. The water upheld the ark, so that eight souls could swim on it, and be saved ; the Holy Ghost also moves on the water in baptism, for he is connected therewith ; and Christ the Saviour, is put on thereby. The water in the flood, not because it was merely water, saved the eight souls, otherwise all the antediluvians would have been saved ; but because it upheld the ark ; neither does the water in baptism save only because it is water ; but because it is an element with which the Holy Spirit is connected, who makes it a flood of salvation.

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