Rev. Chris Coleborn

baptism was a part of the transition between Old and New. Circumcision was still in force, for our Lord Himself was circumcised. But the day of new things was coming, and baptism was about to take the place of circumcision. Repen- tance unto forgiveness of sins was now the mark of those who entered the kingdom of heaven. And baptism was a sign and seal of that. Because reality had come, the sign was all the clearer. The bloody sign of circumcision and of the inability to bring forth the seed of...