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the Throne was a Sea of Glass like untoChryftai ', and also in the midst of the Thro-ne.And round about the Throne were four Animals ,&c. By this small Alteration, in which the ori-ginal Text is no way concern’d, all the old Per-plexities vanish without taking \v ima-ep tS S-^pyain a new and unnatural Sense. N. f>. As thenew PunUation represents the Sea of Glass, likeunto Chryftai, to be in the middle of the Throne ,as wcJ 1 as before the Throne : So also JR en. xxii. i.a Rizer of slater clear as Chryftai is said to pro-ceed out of the Throne of God and the Lamb.

SECT. V.

False Versions in Favour of those , whodiffer from the Church os England,concerning the Necejjity , Extent andNature of the Chrifiian Sacraments.

I. Job. iii. 5 . Except , says our Lord, a Manhe born of Water and the Spirit , he can -not enter into the Kingdom of God.

W H A T E V E R the Meaning of Spirit be,certain it is, that Water Baptism is heredeclared necessary. It is not enough that Menbe born of the Spirit, or inwardly cleansed, butthey must also be born of Water. For whenthe spiritual cleansing is alone spoken of, as in theVerses following, no Mention is made of Hater.

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