and their appropriate functions. delight, The document discusses the Deluge (Noah's flood) and its relationship to water baptism. It argues that: 1) The water that caused the Deluge came from the same source ("the deep") that existed at the creation of Earth and has always existed, not being created or destroyed. 2) The Deluge purified and regenerated the Earth, making it anew, just as baptism purifies and regenerates believers. Both use water as an agent of cleansing. 3) As faith was needed to be saved from the Deluge, so faith combined with baptism is needed for salvation. Baptism,

1. tmmn mmn
THE
j
DELTJaJi;,
AND
^WA-TER
PART
BAPTISM
SEC0.Y7).
THE DRUNKENNESS OF NOAH,
AND
THE LORD'S SUPPER.
BY
D.
'*
C.
KNIGHT
Navum Tcstamentuin
in Vetere latet,
Vetus Testamentum in patet."
"
The New Testament
The Ohl
is
lies
concealed in the Old,
unfolded in the New."

2. " Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 3868, by D.
C.
KNIGHT, in the Clerk'
New York."
OfQ.ce of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of
BROMELL & O'KEEFE,
STEA.M PRINTERS,
10
SPRUCE STREET,
NEW YORK.

3. SCRIPTURE HOMEOPATHY.
THE DELUGE AND WATER BAPTISM.
" Begin,
my pen
!
some heavenly theme,
And
write some boundless thing,
mighty works or mightier name
The
Of our Eternal King."
The
history of the world
-important events
is
divided into three period-,
—the Deluge and the advent
tions of these periods are so distinct that
worlds in
one.
it
of Christ.
may be
marked by two
The dispensa-
said there are three
They, however, so completely overlap each other that
no imperfect link in the entire chain which connects the beginning
with the fiual end, and each is so involved in the others that the study of
there
is
one necessarily unfolds them
Much
all.
speculation has been indulged in
by those who are
inclined to
disbelieve the account given by Moses of a universal deluge, as to where
the water came from which covered the highest mountains of the earth,
" fifteen cubits and upwards."
In answering this
by those having
cavil, there
has been various suppositions advanced
implicit faith in the Scripture account of the Flood.
It
has been beld by some that there was water created for the purpose, and
afterwards annihilated by Divine power
Scripture to support such a supposition.
—but
In
there
is
nothing in the
fact, there is
nothing in the
account of the earth's formation, as described by Moses, that gives any
account whatever of the creation of water, at any time as a distinct element, or the annihilation of a single drop of
At
it.
the creation of the
was an element existing and prevail"
The incomprehensible
iog exceedingly, and darkness was upon its face.
"blackness of darkness" was its constant attendant, and yet, amid all
this darkness, mysteriously " the Spirit of God moved upon the face of
earth, as described by Moses, water
the waters."
" In the beginning Grod created the heavens
and the earth."
The
and the earth afterwards. This refers to a period prior and
'distinct from that which Moses, in the following verse, goes on to
describe, " The earth was without form, and void and darkness was upon
heavens
first
the face of the deep."
.after six
days labor
it
The earth
at this time
was born a new
earth.
was
in
an embryo state, and
Here
is
the
*'
deep" and

4. '*
darkness, ^^ the creation of which he gives us no account, except the gen-
He
eral one, that in the beginning
created the heavens and the earth.
—
They existed and formed a part an important part of the earth in its
embryo state, as it was formed in the begioning, ages before the waters
were divided and the darkness dispersed.
or chaos, was covered with water, as
and so
we
far as
are able to judge
During this period, the earth,
was during the days of the deluge,
condition, must have been similar.
it
its
no account of any water being annihilated, but merely separated,
This same water which
so that on the third day the dry land appeared.
covered the earth when it was " without form and void," existed at the
There
is
time of the Flood, in fountains of the deep, and was called forth by the
Creator for the accomplishment of His purposes, and at His bidding
returned to
hiding place, and there, in obedience to His commands,
its
performs the duties assigned
.to it.
That the whole earth has been covered by water at some period long
past, is evident from the petrified shells and fishes which are now found
on the highest mountains of both hemispheres. The traditions of all
The fact of such a flood
nations carry them back to a universal deluge.
is
indeed so well established by science itself that few in this day are so
bold as to deny
it.
Water and Darkness, the creation of which Moses
ular account, were
evidently things
gives us no partic-
existing at that period,
history by him of the earth's creation commenced.
when the
Darkness we take to
be the representative of evil. The Spirit of God fills all space. The
'*
If I ascend up into heaven Thou art there.
If I make
Psalmist says
:
my
bed
in heil, behold.
Thou
art there
1
" His Spirit
"
moved upon the
face of the waters," and at that time a conflict took place between the
Spirit of
"God
Light and the Spirit of Darkness.
be
said, let there
the abode of darkness
light,
and appointed
all its
the Flood he called
and there was
—the habitation of
trol of it at this time, for
It
evil.
His own purposes.
was a
conflict
light."
Water was then
God assumed
special con-
Divided and separated
various and mysterious movements.
it
on the water,
forth for a purpose, that purpose
it,
At the time of
was the physical
The washing and regeneration of the earth, which
was the earth's second birth, it being restored to new and fresh life. For
destruction of sinners.
the accomplishment of this purpose
darkness of
sin,
—
to cleanse the earth
—
to disperse the
he used Water, which had been the abode of Darkness.
This was a baptism.
"The
waters prevailed exceedingly upon the
earth."
This
is
an important epoch
inspiration, the
in the history of the world, given us
by
study of which leads us more fully to comprehend the
great plan of salvation, as laid
The spiritual and
plan was founded, and by which it is to
down
material mediums on which this
in
the beginning.

5. be
consummated, are perceptibly foreshadowed
finally
universal prevailing of the waters.
which are used, and which
The
spirituality
in^this
grand and
and the materiality
are joined together in this plan,
can no more
be separated than we can separate soul from body, and still have visible
They have been joined together by Goi, and whatsoever He hath
life.
joined together let no
In this plan,
God
as spiritual means
however contrary
we have no
the other
is
man put
asunder.
His wisdom has seen
in
for the restoration
may be
it
to use material as well
fit
and regeneration of
to our preconceived notions
man, and
fallen
and prejudices,
authority for surrendering them, and saying
that one or
not necessary, or that any can be saved without the aid o^
both.
If the Spirit
is all
that
is
necessary, G-od
would not have ordained
that sinful flesh should be restored by the likeness of sinful flesh.
If
He
had not designed that like should cure like, the glorious plan of the Redeemer, Ma7i, would not have been inaugurated to restore to Him
rebellious
Among
man.
the
many
Christian controversies, that upon the mode of bap-
tism stands pre-eminently prominent.
Learned and labored essays and
sermons have been produced, with results unsatisfactory.
good
resulting from these
is
doubtful.
It
is
not seriously retarded Christ's kingdom, and done
monious union of
his sincere followers.
the mode of baptism
can gather
little
—a
Amid
much
all this
subject comparatively of
satisfactory information
The actual
a question whether they have
to prevent har-
controversy upon
little
importance
— we
on the impi>rtant subject of
The purpose for which it was intended is of far more
importance than the mode by which it is administered. The object here
baptism
is
itself.
not to uphold or denounce any mode, but merely to give such reasons
for the institution of the ordinance of baptism
by water, and the necessity
by a careful reading of the Scriptures.
The ordinance of baptism was instituted for a purpose, and we have
no more right or authority to disobey the command to baptise than we
have the command to teach, and there is just as much saving efficacy in
baptism as there is in preaching. Tiiey were both commanded by Christ
to be performed by men, and while God in His wisdom has seen proper
with His Spirit to operate through the sound of the human voice, which
for its use, as are suggested
Is
a mysterious materiality,
the agency of water, which
*'
He
is
has also seen proper to operate through
also a mysterious materiality
— Noah being
a preacher of righteousness," preaching preceded the flood, so preaching
precedes baptism, " for
how
shall they believe in
Him
of
whom
they have
not heard," and as the preaching before the deluge would have been a
failure without
it,
(being the evidence of truth), so preaching
failure without baptism,
which
is
the evidence of
is
its effectiveness.
now
a

6. 6
It
that
held by one class that water ''Baptism saves us."
is
important, but not necessary to " save us."
it is
that no baptism by water
One
is
By another
held by another
is
necessary to "save us."
is
holds that infant baptism
and necessary; another, that i^
One holds that infants which are baptized will b^
and wrong.
useless
It
is
right
saved, and them that are aot will perish.
whether baptised or not,
will be saved,
Another holds that all infant^
and another, that all will perish*
These different views of baptism are
all
entertained by different de-
nominations, and taught from different pulpits,and from some so indefinite
are the teachings on this subject,
it is difficult
to determine which,
if
any^
are taught.
Now, if on a subject so important, " the, trumpet
sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle."
It is
want of union, order and pointed
give an uncertain
believed that the
force on this subject, has done
more ta
prevent the spread of the Gospel, and the increase of Christ's kingdom,
than
all
It
is
the others combined.
proposed here, in the further consideration of the subject, to start
with these propositions
First
—As
we
deluge, so
unbelief did not destroy the antideluvians without the
will
not be saved by faith without baptism.
Second—As by
by
:
water without faith
water, with faith, shall all have
The
is
men perished
in the earth
:
so
Christ.
declaratious involved in these propositions being similar, but
differently stated, they will
It
all
life in
be considered one.
evident from the Scriptures that baptism, at the time ot John^s
was considered as from God,
insestiture,
for the question,
'*
John's bap
is it," makes it certain that it was then understood by
was delegated by God to baptise with water all who came
tism from whence
all
that John
to him, and that those
who were
thus baptised, were prepared by that
baptism to be the followers of Christ, and the recipients of His Spirit'
and we can
arrive at no other conclusion than this,
when we
consider, In
connection with John's baptism, the fact that Christ's followers (not excepting the Apostles), were not baptised with the
day of Penticost.
ered those
he
lost
said,
'*
And we
who were
those' that
Holy Ghost
until the
are impelled to conclude that Christ consid-
baptised with water as being given him by God, for
thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them
but the son of perdition, that the Scriptures might
he fulfilled^
is
Judas
had never been baptised with the Spirit, and yet Christ recognised him
His by water baptism, the same as the other followers of Christ,
as His.
were His.
Neither Judas nor they could have been His in any other
was not sent to any of His followers
until afterlHis resurrection, and at that time to those only who were
baptised with water, for the Apostle's injunction and promise wap, "Resense, for the comforter or spirit
.

7. pent and be baptised every one of you, for the remission of sins, and ye
shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost," and " ye shall receive power after
that the Holy Ghost
is
in the intellectual or
moral force of the Apostles, until they received this
But by
Divine Power.
men
come upon you."
There was nothing remarkable
they become pre-eminently
this spiritual infusion,
of fores and power, and their influence
among men was marked and
and
superior to others possessed of cultivated faculties
They became the
finer natural qual-
power
a power that comes from God only. A gracious o-zY^ that forces "the
shoemaker to go beyond his last," and the fisherman beyond his net. But
where is the evidence that these men would have received this power if
than themselves.
ities
—
recipients of a conscious
they had not submitted to the ordinance of *water baptism
who
sons
are thus b'aptised, receive the Spirit
and most certainly do,
of
and believing they will receive
as
God
has dealt to every
of gifts, but the
per-
they repent and are baptised for the remission
if
sins,
sities
Do all
?
They have the promise
?
man
same
it,
they will receive
it,
" according
" There are diver-
the measure of faith."
" Gifts differing according to
spirit."
the
grace given us."
Though
tised,
it is
admitted that Judas, with the other Apostles, was bap-
and thus became
Christ's
;
yet because he was lost,
it
cannot be
admitted that the ordinance of baptism was thereby in any manner
For
affected, or its efficacy impaired.
to argue that an act, the
commis-
which act the general
sion of which completes a general plan, without
manfound our argument
plan would be not only incomplete, but defeated, destroys or in any
ner viciates any one of the parts of that plan,
upon an absurdity.
If those
came
who
Christ's, those
The aposcacy
who were
are baptised now,
was foretold by
of Judas
to
is
the subjects of baptism then, be-
become
His.
inspiration, ages before the
ad-
vent of Christ, and was to follow as a necessary act in the plan of salvaIt
tion.
was necessary that Christ should be betrayed and
crucified.
He
"being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledge of God,''
and that He should rise from the dead and become the first fruits of tnem
that slept.
Therefore, the sin of Judas, into
was a part of the general
plan,
whom
Adam, which
the final and complete destruction of the sin of
had wrought
in all
to cure the sin of
men through
Adam
the death oi Christ.
like,
God
and that none may
esty of his power.
kills
him.
Thus the
and the original
took the
defeat the devil himself, thus
fall
devil's
making
sin ot
sin of all
the devil
Judas was made
men was atoned
for in
own instrument with which to
plain to
that
all
to see the depth of
He wounds
the devil entered,
and was necessary to open up the way for
He
cures like with
His wisdom and the maj-
to heal wounds.
To
destroy death
He
and makes alive again.
Man
being created in the image of
lu's
Maker,
is
a triune creatu]:e, hav-

8. —
'
8
ing three distinct parts
—moral,
Now, we can-
and physical.
intellectual,
not suppose the plan of salvation complete, unless
compass
it
effectually
the triune man, restoring him to his original purity and privileges, and
exalting him to a state of happiness where the several parts of his triune
nature will perform, with joy and gladness the duties for which they were
To complete this plan, it required the Father, Son, and
The Father, through the intellect, brings and gives us to
created.
first
Holy Ghost.
the Son, for " Behold I and the children which
asmuch
God
then, as the children are partakers of flesh
likewise took part of the
upon the moral part of
name
hlood,
For-
he himself
same, that through death he might destroy
The Holy Ghost performs
death.
hath given me.
and
our*^ nature
its office in
—the
the plan by
operation
its
Hence, the command to
heart.
Holy Ghost.
In the ordi-
nance of baptism and the Lord's S upper, we have these
three material
baptise in the
substances
of the Father, Son, and
water, which, at the crucifiction,
wine, which represents
His blood, and
came from
Christ's side
;
which represents His
bread,
flesh.
not to save the moral or spiritual part only, that this plan was in_
" For a spirit hath
stituted, but to save all three, which constitute man.
It
not
is
and bones," and the
flesh
never
spirit
Christ died ^physically,
dies.
that men might not physically perish but through the resurrection
—-that they might, by a
—have
come
voluntary act on their part, bethe inheritors of heaven and eternity, and hence, He said, " ex-
cept a
man be born again
everlasting
life
spirit,
There is a natural body and a
kingdom of heaven."
Water baptism is the preparation of the natural body
foody."
change which
it is
to
undergo " at the last trump."
of the resurrection.
It
and unseen process by which water
it
bleaches
;
We
know not the silent
we know not the process by
operates on seeds to produce germination.
did not germinate until
It has been discov-
it
it
was put
is
slight circumstance, directed
moulded that the same
is
to
become
Though
particle
this is all
flesh,
by the All Wise One, be
would become either the
bird, beast or man, according to the direction given
all
not (quickened
is
a period when the minute particle of inert
matter which, in the course of time,
that
it
die," {or rot).
Without doubt there
time.
an Egyptian
in
into the moist, earth, then
" That which thou sowest
brought forth abundantly.
except
for that
preserves the
It
ered that a grain of wheat dryly wrapped up, for ages,
Mummy,
spiritual
the mysterious and incomprehensible
is
connection between the natural and spiritual.
which
he {man) cannot enter
*'
into the
germ
of water and the
beyond the
it
may, by some*
so
shaped and
flesh of fish or
at this particular
vision of finite beings, yet
we know
the different kinds of flesh originate in the same inert matter,
and the different
hj the Apostle,
qualities or fineness of flesh, in the four kinds
are all produced from the
same
mentioned
inert matter.
So we

9. may
and
conclude that
tliere is
a period
when
future condition so directed by
thereby fitted " unto the resurrection of
its
it is
iiQJitsh
may be
so acted upon,
the agency of water baptism that
life,"
by
Him
"
who
shall
it may be fashioned like uato His glorious
we have been planted together in the likeness of His
change our vik body, that
'*
body."
death,
dead
we
For
if
be also iu the likeness of His resurrection,"
shall
not at
rise
why
all,
for,
"
the
if
The degree
are they baptised for the dead."
of repentance or the amount of faith which an individual must have to
—
them a subject for baptism is not stated in the Scriptures if
the feeblest assent of the individual to
as *'a grain of mustard seed"
The command is, " Him that is weak in the
the ordinance is sufficient.
For as many of yoa
faith receive ye, but not to <iM^Z>if/it/ disputations."
as have been baptised in Christ have j^ut on Christ, and are all the chilconstitute
—
God by
dren of
It
is
faith.
evident that the material affects the Spiritual, and this will not
be denied by those who are opposed to and denounce the sacraments aa
without efficacy. The question, " What is a man profited if he shall gaii
the whole world and lose his
own
quisition, of material substance,
contrary to the
the unlawful attempt to acquire
even to
its loss
There
is
is
by damnation
soul ?" evidently teaches that the ac-
it
affect
will
— which
is
;
men and
and while they are in
of God, or even
the futurity of the soul,
the loss of the
as intimate connection between
between body and soul
command
man
himself.
the world as there
this world,
they are in the
body, andarebaing prepared, both soul and body, for the world to come;
and
their preparation will
make
bs
in a
measure directed by the use which they
of the materi.ility with which they are surrounded, either to the res-
urrection of the just or the unjust.
Scriptures, and
is
Though
this is ther
teaching of the
wh
the doctrine as preached at the present day, yet
le
some declare that the acquisition of material substance contrary to God's
law, will be effcictual in banishment from His presence, they also declare
that the application of material snbstance, according to God's
is
of no avail, and has no saving efficacy in
of such reasoning
to
it.
is
so apparent that
The conclusion
it is
it.
The glaring
command,
inconsistency
necessary only to call attention
to which such reasoning necessarily leads,
that
is
the devil has material power which God, the creator of heaven and earth,
has not.
**
Soul thou hast much goods laid up for
goods evidently affected the soul
—the
many
years."
These
inner man, for ''he thought within
The
himself saying, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry."
devil,
through material substance, had invaded the territory within and made
captive the soul
Now,
if
the devil has
materiality, such as he selects to capture
much
to say that
commands, cannot
power through the agency
and destroy the
of
soul, is it
too
God, through the agency of materiality such as
He
restore and save that soul.
He commands
the use of

10. —
"
10
water, which
is
use to restore, because
its
and angels, as well
or
kill,
and to
Climate
is
commands
cheap, abundant, and easily obtained, and he
as
He
used
men, that
restore or
make
to destroy, thus
it
He
showing the
devil
can use the same material to destroy
alive.
conceded to be an
all
controlling influence upon the races
of mankind, affecting them physically, mentally, and morally, as they
change from the climate of their nativity tc that of another. The Jew,
however, is entirely exempt from climatic influence, and can, in fact,
adapt with impunity,
all
the various grades of climatic, temperature.
.
" From Greenland's icy mountains,
To India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
EoU down tlie golden sand."
It
is
true, he is subject to disease
and death, as
all
others are, but not to
those diseases such as are contracted by other races in adapting a tem-^
The Jew,
there-
other races of mankind.
But
The
perature widely differing from that of their nativity.
fore, in this respect, is different
wherein
from
all
this difference lies, the physiologist
student in the dissecting
is
not able to define.
room has not discovered
the particular formation
of bone or blood, muscle, nerve or fibre, that constitutes the peculiar for-
mation which exempts the sons of Abraham from the influence of climate,
which is so degenerating to other races. This pecuharity of the Jew con•
sists
not in the different formation of his [)hysical, mental or moral organiza-
tion,
but in a design or
is fitted,
decree of Grod represented in circumcision,
prepared, and preserved for the purpose for which
that he might be a living miracle^
might be a
living, lasting',
means which
to
known and read
by which he
God designed,
of all nations
—that he
and incontrovertible witness, that God can, by
foolish, so prepare a race of mankind for an
men appear
earthly change that they can be transported from their native, to a for-
From them
eign and opposite clime, with perfect impunity.
of Christ are to learn that baptism makes them
fits
them
for the great
and
final
change,
''
the followers
a peculiar people," and
when they
shall
be "in the
twinkling of an eye" triumphantly transported, even through
fire,
to
"a
made with hands, eternal in the heavens."
Elisha, who at that time represented the Word, " sent a messenger to Naaman, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven time?, and thy
flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.'
The duty he was required by the message to perform was so easy and
habitation not
'
simple that
it
struck him as the most consummate foolishness^
turned and went
•*
if
away
in
a rage."
Bat the reasoning
the prophet had bid thee do some great thing
have required much time and money,
—wouldst
•'
So he
of his servant,
—something that would
thou not have done
it,"^
convinced him so far that the assent of his will to wash and be clean was

11. 11
This assent of the intellect was uecessarj', and he could not
gained.
have washed without
was that credit given
It
it.
prom-
which constitutes faith.
ise
Though Naamau might have
and
lived
might have increased
his faith
mountains," yet
if
have been clean.
Naamau that
He was born
" so that he could r*^move
daily,
was
It
prescription and application of water to
.the
new
of physical health and strength.
life
again physically of water, " and his flesh came, like unto
little
He was
child."
restored by no peculiar property
inherent in Jordan's sluggish stream, for
better,
he was as old as Methusaleh,
till
he had not washed in Jordan seven times he would not
restored him to a
the flesh of a
no
to the prophet's
its
turbid waters were in reality
no more medicinal, than that of the limpid streams of
and Pharpar,
rivers of
Damascus," but
it
was
cation of the prescription as given him by the
"Abama
his ohedkrxe in the appli-
man
of
God
that freed him
from the loathsome disease of leprosy, and restored him to the joys of
new
vigor and
life
and made him indeed a new man, regenerated and
dis-
inthralied from the bonda<2:e of disease.
When
man
Jesus said to the blind man, "
Go wash
in
the pool of Siloam,"
assurance implied in our
Lord's injunction, that he would by this means receive his sight, " there-
the
fore he
iutellectnally assented, believing the
went
his
way, and washed and came again, seeing."
would not have received
Therefore without the aid of both
his sight.
and baptism we cannot be saved.
faith
Without the
not have washed, and without washing he
assent of his mind, he would
''
He
that belie veth and
is
hap^
Faith
be saved, but he that beheveth not shall be damned."
" He that believeth
and baptism in this passage are inseparably joined.
tised shall
not," he that has no faith at
*'
shall be
But
then
is
?
if
he has
faith,
The same
as
a work, his faith
all
and consequently
is
and
God
baptised with his baptism."
and decree, that
all
men
all
is
not baptised, what will be his condition
he had not believed, for without baptism, which
dead, for Jesus said, " the Pharisees and lawyers
if
the people that heard
because
will not be baptize^.,
damned."
rejected the counsel of
"
all,
men
in the
The only foundation
the thief on the cross
against themselves, not being baptised,'^ but
John and the publicans,
Baptism^ then,
shall be
is
God's
saved by water,
justified
will,
ivitk
God, being
purpose, design
faith in Christ
^^
earth wers destroyed by water, icithout faith..
for a belief contrary to this proposition is that of
who was
Thousands have no doubt been
and " reject the counsel of God,"
saved.
led to neglect an all important duty,
by an exposition of this passage of Scripture which circumstances do
not justify.
Only one of the four Evangelists mentions the conversion of
the thief on the cross.
Matthew and Mark say that the thieves that
were crucified with him reviled him. John says they crucified him " audi

12. 12
two
Admitting that Luke viewed the Cross from a
others."
different
stand point from the others, and was in a position to hear better than
they (though "Jesus saw the disciple standing by
whom
he loved")
there would be doubts as to the wisdom of upholding this unsupported
men to believe there is salvation without
we have no evidence that this thief who was saved had
not been baptised. The probabilities are much stronger that he had
testimony so forcibly as to lead
baptism, because
than that he had not, for "all the people that heard John
Then went out
Taeing baptised."
all the
one
among
for he said,
When
'*
water,
is
this
man
who went
out and was
He
rest,
evidently
knew something of
gone out of a man he walketh through
and finding none," and unless he is baptised with
the last state of that
is
man
is
worse than the
seeking salvation in dry places, in another
upon him, where he
Christ's
has done nothing amiss."
the unclean spirit
dry places seeking
'*
the thousands
His having been baptised was the means of his being drawn
to Christ, and noticed by Him.
"
Judea, and
Is there not the strongest probability that this
who was saved was
baptised.
lite,
justified Grod
all
region round about Jordon, and were baptised of him in Jordon,
confessing their sins."
thief
him Jerusalem, and
to
will find
first,"
way from
because he
that enjoined
no other Spirit than those " more wicked
than himself."
To be born
The seed we plant
in the ground, is first buried and then born into new life.
Baptism is
not the washing away of the filth of the flesh, for while we live on this
earth this will cling to us, but it is the answer of a good conscience
towards God the receiving of his counsels the acceptance of the means
placed within our reach, by which we are made partakers of the benefit
of Christ
death.
Being buried with him in baptism, we shall be in his
likeness when we are raised into newness of life by the power of the
of water,
is
to be buried in baptism.
—
—
—
resurrection.
By
the natural providence of
dren, through their natural
God
birth,
with parental instrumentality, chil-
become the involuntary, unconscious,
By the spiritual
sin and death.
and unavoidable subjects of the law of
providence of God, as manifested by His grace, through the instrumentality of parents or guardians in Baptism, they are
made
the involuntary,
unconscious, and unavoidable recipients of regeneration, and partakes of
the blessings of redemption, which Christ came to accomplish.
is
the natural birth by which they are in
of death.
The second
is
Adam
The
first
involuntarily the subjects
the spiritual birth by which they are in Christ
involimtarily the subjects of
life.
If the parents, or either one of them,
are regenerate and born anew, of water and the
spirit,
the souls of their
children at birth, with all their faculties and powers, are as livingly and
surely united to the Lord Jesus Christ, as the souls of their parents
who

13. 13
"
repented and believed on Him,
with thee and with thy
sanctified
now
seed,''^
Hence,
my
I establish
covenartt
and the seed of the unbelieving parent
is
" else were their ceildren unclean, but
by the believing one,
are they holy.
For behold
it is
concluded that
all infants, either of
whose
parents are believers, dyimg at an early age, die in Christ, they are holy
But
and participants of the covenant.
all infants,
both of whose parents
unclean and die in
are unbelievers, dying before baptism are
Tlierefore, " suffer infants (by baptism) to
come unto me
in
come unto me
no other way) " ^n^Jorlid them not, for of such"
fants) in large part,
is
made up
Sin
is
Grace
Man
is
Adam.
" (for they can
(in-
the kingdom of heaven.
a spiniiial poison,
a spiritual antidote.
is
the poisoned subject composed of material substance perme-
ated with spiritual poison, which constitutes sinful flesh.
This poisoned
substance— man, could not be reached by the great spiritual physician, to
administer to him the spiritual antidote, unless he was transformed into
material substance, man " made in the likeness of sinful fleshP
And'
when thus transformed, this spiritual antidote was not administered to
all men in the mass, but it was through such mexins as were appointed
that they were to be benefitted by it, and by his being thus made in the
likeness of sinful flesh,
benefitted by
it
was put within the reach of
Adam by their natural
Adam all die." No man
All men are in
sin,
therefore, " in
but by baptismal birth they
as effectually in
therefore,
*'
necessary, so
is
birth,
is
and are the
are,
and the
be
in Christ
inheritors of
by natural birth,
and are
inheritors of grace,
Christ as they are by their natural birth in
in Christ shall all
ihe flesh, in the
all sinful flesh to
they accepted the appointed means.
it if
be made
alive."
As
Adam,
material substance,
general plan for the interposition of grace by Christ,
niaterial substance, water, necessary as a
medium
was
for the
saving application of grace in the regeneration of the individual man.
As
the fetus in the
womb, without being suspended
an abortion, cut off from natural
life,
in water,
would be
so in the second birth, without the
application of water in buptism, he will be cut off from that newness of
life
—
the resurrection of the just.
The
fact that
no sect or society of Christians who have refused the
ordinance of water baptism have ever been successful, though their faith
be simiL^r to others who accept
adhere to
it
it.
And
the further fact that those
who
most strongly are the most numerous, powerful and endur-
who reject water baptism reject
cannot be among those who advance His
ing, are sufficient evidence that those
God's
counsel,
and consequently
kingdom.
Take
for
example the Quakers, who as a
class
compare most favor-
.

14. 14
moral point of view, with any denomination of Christians, and
as we can judge from appearances, they have in some respects the
:ably, in a
so far
advantage. But when we consider their condition as a branch of Christ's
church we
after a lapse of about
fiad that
two hundred
years, during a
portion of which time they flourished by increasing in prosperity and
now
numbers, they are
why
askedj
passing rapidly away, and the question
the Society of Friends diminishing in numbers
is
places they gradually die out, until there
is
often
In some
but one remaining, and" soon
none.
Their precepts are good, their practice
though
silent,
may ba more
?
is
is
excellent, their prayers,
sincere, for
"Prayer
is
the souls sincere desire,
Utter'd or expressed."
Their faith
Holy
is
strong, for they believe they are the recipients of the
The
Spirit.
question, therefore,
why they do not endure
is
impor-
and not as belongand enduring. The reason is
tant, for societies established for benevolent purposes,
ing to Christ's kingdom, are prosperous
evidently that in rejecting water baptism " they rejected the counsel of
Godf against themselves,"
water by the
the fault with them
— not
The
Word."
is
"^
'Teach
all nations,
the washing of
with
Quakers are commendable, and
not in what they do but what they omit to do.
abide literally by the
They
Mount, "Swear not
being "cleansed
tenets of the
of Christ in His
sermon on the
but they positively reject
the injunction,
inj auction
at' all,''
baptising them." Tiie former
cummin,'' but the latter, which they have
''
is
the "mint and anise and
omitted, are the weightier mat-
ters
which they ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone."
The
lesson
which the
materiality are
still
failure of their tenets teach
might as well attempt to
sinful flesh
is
that spirituality and
joined together in the present dispensation, and that
fly
with angel's wings, as to appro-
priate to itself the Spirit, without obeying the weighty injunction of
"
Christ,
name
Go
ye, therefore,
and
teach all nations, baptising
of the Father and of the Son, (which
was
flesh),
them
in the
and of the Holy
Ghost."
In the great plan of salvation, Christ
Mediator sent by God, that in
is
the all-important and only
Him we might have
life
eternal.
also institutes certain ordinances, that in the use of them,
we might thereby justify God and be
" as
if
in Christ.
a wheel were in the midst of a wheel "
The sending
of Ohrist
—a
But he
by our own
act,
These ordinances are
plan within a plan.
and the Holy Ghost are the prerogative of God
;
the rejection of them, or their acceptance through his appointed means,
is
an act of man, and he
is
not compelled against his will to receive them.
When mac
sined, it
demned by
the law of God, which he had violated, and there was no
was by some
act of his that he
became a
sinner con-

15. 15
means by which he could appear in person at the l;)ar of infinite justice
and plead for himself, so an Advocate was appointed for him, to plead
his cause " without money and without price; " but he cannot have the
services of this
Advocate without some
by which he acknowledges
act
himself condemned, and acknowledges the justice of his condemnation.
Therefore our I-ord said, by the act of baptism
It requires an act to counteract an act.
God."
man, "
Lord
for the
My
said,
shall not
sjpirit
the publicans justified
'
It requires
man
to save
always strive with man, for
qso flesh "
Here is the spirit striving with man, and the result
by water. Under the new cispensation he is saved by
water and faith in Christ, "for that he (Christ) is also fleshy The reason why it required the man Christ Jesus to save man, (Adam) is because
that he
is
destruction
is his
God's Spirit would not strive with man,
sequently he could not be saved by the
*'
Man was the cause
Man is the remedy
To overcome
The
principle of
to prove
homeopathy
from Go&'s word,
it
sideration' to quote the
it
is
for that he
was flesh,'' and con-
spirit alone.
deatli
of sin.
for sin.
Christ died.
so cbarly involved in
will
be only necessary
the plan, that
in its further
con-
argument of Saint Paul, which pre-eminently pre-
sents this principle heal similar with similar.
*'
For
as
by one man, many
Rom.
many be made
righteous.
death reigned,
much more
wem made
v.
by one (man)
shall
by one man, (Adam)
''For, if
19.
shall life
sinners, so
reign by one (man) Jesus Christ.'
"As
by one (man) judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by one (man) the free gift came upon all men to jus-
Rom.
V. 17.
Rom.
tification of life."
— the law
Again
v. 18.
of the spirit of life in Christ
that
it
sin and death.
was weak through the flesh, God sending
ness of sinful flesh,
Jesus hath
made me
For what the law could not do
from the law of
free
and for
sin
condemned
his
sin in the
who knew no sin, was made to be sin, (to cure our sins)
(men) might be made the righteousness of God by him (man).
Christ
V. 21.
Through the
Gal. 3. 13.
of the Gentiles was removed.
die,
that
even so
in [one
man)
Rom.
Christ, shall
came death, by rmn came
xi.
all
we
II. Cor.
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being
curse for us.
in
own son in the likeflesh. Rom. viii. 2, 3.
made a
unbelief of the Jews, the unbelief
30.
As
be made
in {on£
alive.
man) Adam,
For, since by
all
man
also the resurrection of the dead. I. Cor. xv.
21, 22.
Mount
Sinai caused fear
fear and quake."
and trembling.
Mount Calvary was
" Moses said, 1 exceedingly
the cure for this fear and
trem-

16. 16
and the darkness and quaking at Calvary were the counteracting
remedies for the darkness and quaking of Sinai.
bling,
As the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth, and passed over
who were its inhabitants and exposed to it at the flood, so must it
now prevail exceedingly upon the earth, and be applied to all in baptism
all
before the conclusion of the present dispensation.
There
is
a mysterious and intimate connection existing between this
element, as described at the creation, and
in the restoration
piness, for as the
beginning, in the
its
use in baptism as a
means
man to his original state of purity and hapspirit of God moved upon the face of the waters at the
earth's embryo state, so does it move with the waters
c
f fallen
now,and so at the end, at the final restitution of all things will His spirit
move upon the face of the waters which shall prevail exceedingly upon
the earth in baptism.
Baptism
make glad
'*
is
the fountain, the source of that " river, the streams whereof
the city of God."
And now, why
away Ihy
tarriest
sins, calling
thou
?
Arise,
and be baptised and wash
on the name of the Lord.''
PAET SECOND.
THE DRUJS^KENNESS OF NOAH,
AND THB USE OF WINE IN
THE LORD'S SUPPER.
In the ninth chapter of Genesis and twenty-first verse,
hensive description of the great
Men who
find favor with
fall of
a great man.
God and obey
his
is
a compre-
•
commands, often become
Often uncon'
trials and temptations.
and without notice or warning, they are led out to be tempted
©f the devil, in a manner unexpected and unlooked for, and the more
immediately the subjects of great
sciously
exalted their moral and spiritual position, the greater the latitude given
the enemy
They
who
assails
are let into
them.
new and
untried fields of conflict, and compelled to
contend against new and powerful weapons, wielded by an enemy in
ambush
The
—unheard and unseen.
tent or wilderness in which
they find themselves
so lonely,

17. 17
dark, and dismal that their imaginations harrass and frighten them into
dangers more trying and perplexing than those from which they would
escape, and it is he only who withstands these trials and temptations
come and minister. Xoah was assailed within his own
tent, while he was quietly, and as he supposed, securely reposing beneath
Our places of abode are often like armories, filled with weapons
it.
to
whom
angels
which even our breath at times
Danger unseen besets us on every
sufficient
is
to 'out in deadlv motion.
side.
" Millions of spiritual being walk the earth
Unseen, both
It
sleep."
proposed to consider this subject under two beads.
is
_First
when we wake and when we
—The
—Tae
similarity of
Noah's and Adam's transgressions.
means used by Saran to introduce sin
into the world, and by the Almighty to overcome and eradicate it.
1st. Nakedness is a concomitant of sin, and in this [rarticalar there is
a striking similarity between the sin of our first parent and th^t of Noah.
Second
Nakedness here
is
similarity of the
being deprived of the robe of righteoasness, and begets
that desire for the outward decoration and adorning of the body, " the
and materiality to
It is an appeal to art
putting on of apparel "
us from the punishment of exposure to which sin subjects
shall be found naked,'' unless we " put on Christ."
us,
shield
and
'*
we
The nakedness of our first parents was discovered after sinning, and God
made garments of skins and cloihed them. To obtain these skins tlie life of
some animal was taken, and thus was instituted the first sacrifice for sin,
and the animal, as well as man, became a suflerer from Adam's transgresand
sion,
till
now, " the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for
the manifestations of the sons of Grod."
In the case of Noah, his nakedness was covered by his two sons, with
garments already at hand, and for
through
Ham
became
sufferers
by the
his
transgression, his descendants
curse of slavery, and all by drunk-
enness.
'
At the termination of the flood, the earth was regenerated, washed and
cleansed from sin, and Noah stood forth the representative of righteousness.
He had
and
safely
same
As
been chosen by
God and
placed in the Ark, with his famUy,
landed "upon the mountains of Ararat."
to his being as pure
as the intention
and
free J'rom sin, there
stood in the
Garden of Eden.
can be but
little
doubt,
and purpose of the flood was to wash out every vestige
of sin and wickedness from the earth, and restore
of innocence and purity, and to give
meet
He new
relation to his Creator, as his prototype did in the
his great adversary in such
choose to approach him.
man an
it
to
its
pristine state
opportunity once more to
form and manner as the wiley foe mignt
According to the description of the formation of

18. 18
the earth, the waters were gathered together on the third day,' and " dry
land appeared," and Noah, before leaving the Ark, looked forth, " and
behold the face of the ground was dry."
The condition of the earth during the
was the same as at that
when the dry land appeared,
and in all probability, when the face of the ground was dry ; after the
flood it was in much the same condition as at the creation.
Here, then,
flood,
period of the creation prior to the third day,
is
Noah
in
a position similar to
Adam,
so far as the face of the
concerned, and morally in the same condition as
earth
the evil influences
all
He was
which surrounded him before the flood had been washed away.
Adam
equally as secure as
from the temptations of the
posed to the same danger from him.
He
the manner of attack upon bis progenitor
Devil,
was forewarned by
— was
in a
is
measure
and ex-
tradition, of
fortified
by
and consequently more strongly entrenched,
he had been approached from the same direction, and assailed by the
his experience in the conflict,
if
same instrument. But this was not the case. The wiley foe approached
him from another direction, and assailed him with a new and diff'erent
Drunkenness was unknown before Noah was drunk.
weapon.
covery of this state
is
imputed to him
in history,
of the imputation there can be no doubt, as
many
the
It
is
it is
and
of the correctness
not mentioned as one of
held that he was ignorant of the effects which would follow the
use of the juice of the grape, and consequently, innocent.
rant
an
why
article,
the effects of which he was igno-
using.
as he
;
the day " he eat thereof he should surely die."
less
But the ques-
should he and his descendants
The same question might be asked in reference to
was ignorant of the effects of eating the forbidden fruit
would be answered, he was commanded not to eat it, and told that
when
it
itself, if so,
sufferers for the use of
Adam,
but
dis-
sins of the antideluvians.
tion will naturally present
be the
The
he did eat of
This
is
true
;
neverthe-
it.
The reason he gave why he eat of it, was because the woman gave of
He was ignorant of the result. He knew not
the tree and he did eat.
what death was, either physical or spiritual, and it was only after he had
broken the law, that he had a knowledge of the penalty attached to
it.
who are
know not why they
Physical and moral laws are daily broken by individuals
ignorant of the penalties attached to them, and often
are suph sufferers.
their parents.
We
Children often suffer from the violation of laws by
are all sufferers from the transgression of our first
—from the transgression of Adam' and
parents-
"Thou
from the transgression of
O! denison of earth, for pains, diseased and death
But remember, thy hao4,h.ath, egiriied, them grudjfw not at the wages>
of tby doingi^
art sad,
;

19. 1$
Tliy gtiUt &iid
many
father's guilt imist bring
'tliy
company.
And if thou wilt drink sweet poison, doubtless
sorrows in
it shall
tlietr
rot thee to the
core.
The time has not yet come when,
be
children's teeth shall not
There was bat one way
Satan to beguile our
to discover.
curiosity
was
excited, and she
whom
was glad
serpeut being instigated by the devil,
this
was by
It
first
parent, and that
entering into the ser-
hold conversation with the woman.
it
doubt, delighted to find some other with
Her
the father eat sour grapes, the
if
on edge."
set
for
way he had wisdom enough
pent and making
*•
means he reached the
to converse besides
Adam.
to hear his teachings.
Tlie
introduced preaching, and by
first
woman and by
She was, no
woman
the
he reached the man.
The devil is always supposed to approach and beguile his victims by some
means pleasing to them, of which they are particularly fjnd. Etc had
been sometime acquainted with the serpent
She had
was more
It
special favorites.
upon
set her heart
was, perhaps, one of her
"than any beast
intelligent
and
Its beauty, grace,
it.
ened her admiration, and when
teacher,
it
;
of the field."
intelligence
awak-
appeared to her in the garb of a friendly
it
and by insinuating questions and arguments, induced her to invessaw (by a perverted vision) that the tree was '* a
tigate the subject, she
make one
tree to be desired to
She had no thought that her
wise."
teacher, the serpent, was to deceive her and
make her the instrument
of
was chosen and used by Satan, and as he
In the serpent, in this transaction, was
supposed, with complete success.
Adam's
transgression; but
In considering
satan himself
between the
that the
man
it
fall
of
Adam
command was
this subject,
and comparing the
and that of ISoah,
to the man, "
And
must be borne in mind
the Lord God commanded the
saying, of every tree of the garden thon
the tree of knowledge, of
good and
evil,
command was
deep sleep to
unto him.
fall
If,
given unto
upon him
therefore,
woman, he would have
not in the
*'
woman
Adam was
gression."
Adam
it
mayst
before the
for in
Lord God caused a
—before he made the woman and brought her
Satan had succeeded
in
beguiling only the
failed in his purpose, as the transgression consisted
not deceived, but the
therefore,
woman being
So
eating thereof.
was Wiq potent means which Satan, by
his selection of
thought he had succeeded
man
deceived was in the trans-
the instrumentality of the serpent, used to overthrow
Satan had made
it
die.'*
eating of the fruit alone, but of the
The woman,
But of
freely eat.
thou shalt not eat of
the day thou eaiest thereof, thou shalt surely
This
similarity
Adam.
the means to accomplish his ends, and
far as his
wisdom cOald
he laughed in triumph over his supposed success.
see,
he had, and
If Satan had the power
ufter the creation to enter a living creature, {tht serpent) he undoubtedly

20. Would have, and did have, the power
mate substance,
and
of
Noah had been
(the wine).
productioas before the flood
its
its juice,
without
acquainted with the vine
—had eaten
and drank
of the grape
producing drunkenness.
its
an inani-
after the flood, to enter
might have been
It
in
its pure original state, a particular favorite of his; one of those luxuries
which
thoughts dwelt upon and heart longed
his
for.
was,
It
conse-
quently, selected by Satan for his overthrow, and the fact that there was
no command to Noah not to drink, as there was to Adam not to eat, did
not make his act an innocent one, when by the wiles of the devil he was
led into a state which
God
nate love of this
the
it
was not natural to be
weak point
and selected
article,
of his fortification.
The robe of righteousness
before
fell
in
—a
state into which
Satan took advantage of
never designed he should be.
his inordi-
This was
to effect his downfall.
it
was
It
easily reached
from him, and he was
and
carried.
uncovered
in his tent
God and man.
Secondly. The similarity of the means used by Satan to introduce sin
into the world,
The
and by the Almighty to overcome and eradicate
conflict
The
conflict.
between the powers of light and darkness
rebelion of
overcome
spiritually
spiritual
heaven by the Lord
in
him and
into a place prepared for
protested sway; but
Satan was a
when they
God
rebellion,
of Hosts,
his angels, within
pass beyond
its
is
it.
a spiritual
and he was
and cast out
which they have un-
boundary, which they
have power to do, they meet with opposition in proportion to the light
or darkness which prevails in the territory which they invade.
devil
was not destroyed, or annihilated,
tructibility of spiritual beings,
The
object of
And
works.
God
is
"Why the
a question involving the indes-
whether good or bad.
not to annihilate the devil, but to destroy his
is
the great wisdom, power, justice, love, and mercy of the
Almighty, are wonderfully displayed in the formation of man, his downfall in
fall
Adam,
by the
Christ.
his destruction
sin of
The
Noah, and
creation of
by the flood (save eight persons,)
his final
man was
to
his
second
redemption through our Lord Jesus
show
to the spiritual world, includ-
ing the world of darkness, the power, the love, and the mercy of God.
Man was made
forbear.
But
a free agent, having the power within himself to do or
he was
made
spiritually less wiley,
and
less
powerful than
Satan, and Satan caused him to transgress.
The Almighty adapts the same means which Satan had chosen, the
woman^ and by the power of the Holy Ghost, makes her the instrument
And
for the redemption of the world, through our Lord and Saviour.
by the persuasive eloquence of the serpent,
Thus using the same means for the accomplish-
as Satan had used preaching
so
G od
ment of
adapts peacking.
his designs
which Satan had selected for himself, showing to the
inhabitants of «arth of heaven and
hell,
His majesty, wisdom > and power.

21. 21
Nothing could so fully illustrate the superior power of G-od, as his taking
the weapons which Satan had chosen to bring sin and death into the
" Great
world, and using them to overcome and eradicate their power.
is
our Lord and great
That nature or
enness,
is
a condition
is
getting into
it,
and
before he entered
his
power
;
yea, and his wisdom
its
into
which
was originally brought by the devil
was changed from what it was
it
state or condition
the same as the condition of the serpent was changed
it,
after he entered that,
and they both
kingdom of God.'' The
it is upon individuals
was the same as
first,
be changed until we
will continue to
are permitted to drink " the fruit of the vine " as
" new in the
infinite."
is
state of the juice of the grape, which produces drunk-
result
was before the flood,
of drunkenness upon Noah
it
of the present day.
produced
It
the loss of the robe of righteousness, then cursing, and then slavery.
Its result
is
the same now.
Those who are most frequently drunk are the
Most lavish with their curses, and *'of whatsoever a man
Slavery originated
is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage."
in drunkenaess.
"Cursed be Canaan," is the counterpart of, *'thon art
" Cursed is the ground for thy sake."
cursed above all cattle."
The
most debased.
curse follows sin as certain as night succeeds to-day.
It has
been held that slavery
as any other sin
purposes
;
a divine institution.
divine institution
— permitted by
and
limited, controlled, punished,
overruled in a
of
—a
is
way worthy of
his
It
is
the same
God for his own wise
finally, as
character, as the
every other
sin,
Maker and Ruler
all.
As
slavery originated in drunkenness, so by drunkenness
country, overthrown.
The
rulers of the
it
was, in this
South were, drunk when they
inaugurated the slave holders rebelion, not only with
wim
of the grape, but with the wine of God's wrath.
I will
**
from the juice
make drunk
her princes and her wise men, her captains and her rulers, and her mighty
They were so completely drunk that they made but poor use of
natural reason. They were in the same condition as ordinary drunk-
men."
their
ards, unable to discern even the
immediate results of their intemperate
acts.
The Montgomery laugh in 1861, at a time when this country was
by a cloud that foreshadowed a terrible and bloody conflict, was
the laugh of an assembly of drunkards.
The laugh of men self-bereft of
that exalted quality which distinguishes the pure and lofty from the deovercast
based and demoniacal.
" O thou
invisible spirit
of wine," aa
we have
" no other
name by which
to
call thee.
We'll call thee devil."
God
in his
wisdom often chooses the same means
wiiich causes eTii to

22. ;g2
o^ercoin^
Und
er«tdifcate it.
we ^li iSnd
*rhife
itiall his teoTal gotfetnifiei'nt
of the world.
He heals similar with similar."
" The weapons of evil are tuhied agaiiiist itself, fighting under better
**
banners."
But man must overcome
evil
The higher
with ^ood.
his position as
a statesman, or ruler, the greater the obligation resting upon him to
" abstain frota all appearance of evil," a,nd particularly froto the evil of
Noah was a great man, second in im lortance and position
drunkenness.
only to
Chosen by God for the grandest and most sublime un-
Adam.
man— excepting the man Christ Jesus.
dertaking for which he has chosen
The
e'V^il
resulting from his drunkenness
Thus
cOirespondingly great.
ffom their intemperate habits
occupy.
It
is
it
is
position, to
be the tesult of
his
know by
it
matters
have bo intention, no design to
others, or impair the moral fabric of
less
what a man's
evil resulting
one occupying
may be
man may
of getting drunk
what a
alter the result of his acts.
inj^ure himsfelf,
or inflict an injury
which a mighty nation
sap the foundation which Upholds and sustains
his acts with
xhQ
much
btit little
intentions do not alter the result of his acts.
public
The
iww.
looking into the future what will
The act
His thoughts do not
think in such cases.
poised, or
tfi'en
great in proportion to the positions they
drunkenness.
thought a pleasant pastime, but
On
with
in proportion to his position
not possible for an ordinary man,
an exalted public
He may
is
was
com-
It matters but little to the
intentions are, whiether they
which they have to do, and they
is
But a man's
it.
iare
good
or bad.
It is
will naturally inquire into
rtsults of those acts.
As with
the man, so with the nation;
moral grandeur, and
it is
its
greatness consists in
a question for consideration whether the
its
ilaoral
g^6vth of our country has not been retatdfed by the use of intoxicating
by those occupying exalted positions of trust and power.
The sins of a nation must and will be punished. They are punished
We know this, for We have seen and experienced it.
4tt¥e.
te^ev^tages
lii
in the
Ivhat <lo the sins of a nation consist
?
They nndoubtedly
immorality and depravity, the misconduct and misdeeds of those
iti office.
Men
in the
lowly walks of
life
are i^sponsiWe only in so far
as they have beeti instrumental in elevating those who, by their
depravity, are nnfit for exalted pnblic positions.
I'ulers
"
consist
of nations are visited
And David
Upon the
That the
sins
mbM
of the
preople, is evident.
spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel th^t smote
and said, Lo, T have sinned, and 1 have done wickedly, but
It is our duty to inquire into " the
these sheep, what have they done "
why and wherefon of things," The cause and effect. The act and its
But who can tell what is to be the final result of the acts of a
results.
mangfren to strong drink, Who, occu|>yitig the liighieBt position in the
the
{people,
1

23. 23
gift of the greatest,
people on, earthy gives
waj to. an
infirmity so debasing
as drunkenness.
and it is right to reason, that they
then if the drunkenness of Noah, who occupied in his day, th^
will
highest position, was followed by a fearful and abiding curse, and if the
produce
If like causes
like effects,
—
was
nation over which David ruled, the greatest in his day,
visited with sadness,
for his sins
why
mourning, and a swift pestilence,
should not
upon a nation not less enhghtened or exalte^
equal punishment
" Of all the dispositions and
for the sins of its magistrates and rulers.
be visited
habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and morality are indis-
ism
who
man
In vain would that
pensible supports.
claim the tribute of patriot-
should labor to subvert these great pillars of
men and
these firmest props of the duties of
citizens.
human
And
happiness,
let
us with
caution indulge the supposition that moraUcy can be maintained without
Whatever may be conceded
religion.
to the influence of refined education
on minds of peculiar structure, reason, and experience, both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
Th^ people of Israel, as they journeyed through the wilderness, were
" And the
bitten by fiery serpents, ** and much people of Israel died."
Lord said unto Moses make thee a fiery serpent and set it upon a pole,
and it shall come to pass that every one that is bitten, when he looketll
upon it shall live.'' This is a striking instance on record that the same
means are used, both to destroy life and health, and to restore and estab-i
,
lish
them.
Alcohol
is
the fiery strpent that lurks in our
pathway
we journey
as
through the world's wilderness to the promised land of Canaan, and
much people are bitten by it and die. " There is not a house where ther^,
is
At
not one dead."
byeways of
poison
tells
is
life,
we
the corners of the
see
them with the
rankling and boiling
streets, in
their veins,
in.
the highways,
bite of the serpent
and
their fiery appear^^nce
us that the serpent's fangs have been too deeply fastened upon
—that the
virus of his tooth has reached their vitals.
There
saved?
is
aiad,
upon them. The
How
them
can they
be:
none other name under heaven given among mem,
whereby we must be saved but
name of Christ, coupled with ache^ful and faithful compliance with his Holy ordinance, and, a strict obedjlence to the living command, *' Drink ye all of thisP
•*
As
Christ
in the life of
the
Adam was
was the seed of
life
hid the seed of dtaih^ so in the dtaih of
to all
planted in every soul, but requires
baptism to make
it
bring forth
requires the natural sun
to our view, "
ear."
first
who
/<5ti^A
fruit,
believe in
Him.
This seed
in the son of Righteousness
is
and
the same as the seed in the earth
and moisture to cause it to spring up and present
ear, and then the full corn in the
4he blade, then the

24. a
24
As Adam
by eating the forbidden fruit, so we are to be delivered from sin by obedience to the command, *' take and eat this.'*
If we break the command to eat, we are in the same condition as
sinned
Adam, who broke the command not to eat.
As in Noah, sin re-entered the world by '* the juice of the grape," so
in Christ, "by the juice of the grape," chosen by Him as one of the
holy emblems of His love for sinners,
*'
ted,
to be overcome
come."
Our Lord
had the
evidently
institution of the Last
Supper
and the use of wine, not only as an emblem of His love
means
as a
li
i no more wine, be
article containing within itself
an
in view,
for sinners,
at the marriage supper in
The hour when he was
not yet come."
—an
when
for their redempiion,
of Gallilee, he was notified they
is
and eradica-
do shew forth the Lord's death
for as oft as ye drink of this ye
He
until
is sin
to bless
said, "ijine
but
Cana
hour
and dedicate the wine
inviiible spirit of evil
—
—a chosen
weapon of the Devil as a means whereby His blessed life and works
were to be commemorated through all time, and eventually the works of
The hour when He was
the devil effectually annihilated and destroyed.
to take the devil's own instrument, and with it inaugurate an apparently
feeble, but actually a grand, far-reaching, comprehensive and aliwise
as a part of the original plan of salvation.
rite,
When
the governor of the feast tasted the " water that
was made
wine," which came from the water pots of stone, after the manner of the
purifying of the Jews," he was the recipient of an astonishing joy
—
gladness thrilled him which he had
never
experienced
before.
The
good wine" which he had just tasted was of the Christian dispensation,
while that *' worse *' wine which he had before been drinking, was of the
'*
Jewish dispensation.
This, our Lord's
first
miracle,
was emblematical of that union which
water and wine were ultimately to produce
who
among His
—those
followers^
are partakers of the benefit of the sacrament of Bapiism and the
Lords Supper.
It foreshadowed the
the final union of
come, and
all
his wife (the
linen, clean
and white,
anion of Christ and his Church,
when "the marriage of the Lamb is
Church) hath made herself ready, arrayed in fine
Christians,
for the fine liaen
" Great
On
is
the righteousness of saints."
God with wonder and with
praise,
thy works I look,
But still thy wisdom, power, and grace,
SMne brightest in thy Book."
all
Tji