' Hence you again may learn how highly and dearly to esteem baptism ; forasmuch as we receive so invaluable a treasure thereby, which plainly indicates that it cannot be mere water only, which could not effect it, but the word and God's name therein. But where God's name is, there must also be life and salvation : so that, indeed, it may be called a divine, blessed, fruitful, gracious water ; for by the word it gets the virtue to be a washing of regeneration, as St. Paul calls it, Tit. 3.

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