The next important testimony which I shall view in this section is that of St. Peter, when he saith, ' Eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.' 1 Epist. 3, 20 21.

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