{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/213/2130259.htm","path":"chr/ecf/213/2130259.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/213/2130259.htm","text":"(Resp.\u2014Blessed is He Who went down and was baptized in Jordan, and turned back the People from error!)\n1. In Baptism Adam found again\u2014that glory that was among the trees of Eden.\u2014He went down, and received it out of the water;\u2014he put it on, and went up and was adorned therein.\u2014Blessed be He that has mercy on all!\n2. Man fell in the midst of Paradise,\u2014and in baptism compassion restored him:\u2014he lost his comeliness through Satan\u2019s envy,\u2014and found it again by God\u2019s grace.\u2014Blessed be He that has mercy on all!\n3. The wedded pair were adorned in Eden;\u2014but the serpent stole their crowns:\u2014yet mercy crushed down the accursed one,\u2014and made the wedded pair goodly in their raiment.\u2014Blessed be He that has mercy on all!\n4. They clothed themselves with leaves of necessity;\u2014but the Merciful had pity on their beauty,\u2014and instead of leaves of trees,\u2014He clothed them with glory in the water.\u2014Blessed be He that has mercy on all!\n5. Baptism is the well-spring of life,\u2014which the Son of God opened by His Life;\u2014and from His Side it has brought forth streams.\u2014Come, all that thirst, come, rejoice!\u2014Blessed be He that has mercy on all!\n6. The Father has sealed Baptism, to exalt it;\u2014and the Son has espoused it to glorify it;\u2014and the Spirit with threefold seal\u2014has stamped it, and it has shone in holiness.\u2014Blessed be He that has mercy on all!\n7. The Trinity that is unsearchable\u2014has laid up treasures in baptism.\u2014Descend, ye poor, to its fountain!\u2014and be enriched from it, ye needy!\u2014Blessed be He that has mercy on all!","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XIII: Selec...","type":"page"}