J. F. Campbell Collection > Book of Common Order, commonly called John Knox's Liturgy

B H A I S T I D H
entacht Chriofd inar mbaifdeadh, ni
he gurab inbhreathnuidhe an bhridh
fin no na cumhachta do bheith leath
afloigh don vifge, no fa nobair amuigh
fi^in, oir is imdha duine do baifdeadh,
agas nar glanadh leath aftoigh riamh,
acht an ti do ordaidh an baifdeadh do
dhenamh, ar flanuighteoir lofa Criofd,
go noibridheand fe bridh an bhaiflidh,
agcroidheadhaibh na bfirenach, fa
nairafir imchubhaidh, le neart an Sbi-
orad naomh, agas is de fin ghoireas an
Sgriobhtuir ar nathbhreith, agas ata
fin go hairidhe in da pone, amarbhadh
dhroch thoile an chuirp no na coUa,
& anuauidheacht no angloine bheat-
hadh, mar ata cothughadh maith do
dhenamh anadhaidh ar namhad ar fe-
adh ar naimfire, do chaitheamh ar na-
imfire fa ngloine do ghabhamar vma-
ind, anam ar mbaifdidh, agas ge ta do-
char agas cathughadh ar namhad ora-
ind agcuairt no adturos aithghearr na
beathadh fa, neoch ata agar fior iond-
fuidhe, le neart vmarcach, ni troid gan
by caiise the justice of Jesus Christ is made ours by baptisme. Not
that we thinke any suche vertue or power to be inckided in the
visible water or outward action, (for many have bene baptised, and
yet never inwardly purged,) but that our Saviour Christ, who
commanded baptisme to be ministred, will, by the power of his
Holy Spirite, effectually worke in the harts of his elect (in tyme
convenient) all that is ment and sygnified by the same. And this
the Scripture calleth our regeneration, which standeth chiefli in
these two points, in mortification, that is to say, a resisting of the
rebellious lustes of the fleshe, and in nevmes of lyffe, wherby we
continually stryve to waike in that purenes and perfectipn wher-
with we are cladd in Baptisme.
And althogh we in the journey of this lyffe be incumbred wyth
many ennemies, which in the way assayle us, yet fyght we not wyth
out fruite.
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