An Exposition of the book of Common Prayer And Administration of the Sacraments

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To clip the person thrice, ^ that is, once at the name in each person in the Trinity, the more fully to express that sacred mystery ; though some later writers say this was done to represent the death, burial, and resurrection of our Saviour, together with his three days continuance in the grave. St. Augustine gives both these reasons, as a double mystery of this ancient rite, as he is cited by Gra- tien. Several of the Fathers, who make mention of this custom, own, that there is no command for... it in scripture; but then they speak of it as brought into use by the Apostles ; and the fiftieth of the canons called apostolical, deposed any bishop or presbyter who should administer baptism without this form.
. Why zvas this custom discontinued ?
A. Because the Arians took advantage of it, by persuading the people, that it was used to denote that the persons in the Trinity were three distinct * Tertullian and Cyprian were strenuous for this custom.
J'38 Of the Reception of the Child.
substances; and, therefore, it first became a custom, and then a law, in the Spanish church, only to use one single immersion, because that would express the unity of the God-head, while the Trinity of persons would be sufficiently denoted, by the per-* sons being baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.


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