' It is therefore nothing but the villainy and mockery of the devil, that now our new-fangled spirits blaspheme baptism, and exclude God's word and order, and view it as nothing more than water dipped out of a fountain ; and then vaunt, What can a handful of water help the soul ? But ah, my friend, who does not know that water is water, when it is separated ? But how dare you thus interfere with the order of God, and separate the best treasure, with which he has connected and incorporated it, and will not have it separated ? For this is the essence in the water–God's word, or command, and name ; which is a greater and nobler treasure than heaven and earth.

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