mised that he should glorify God by a death like His own, when his forward impetuous spirit having been curbed and tamed by the discipline of the Holy Ghost, and his loving indiscretion brought to the calm and gentle wisdom of a "fellowelder," he at last stretched forth his hands", and another girded him, and carried him whither he would not. That glorious martyrdom bound him for ever fast to the bright shore of love and joy. He now, we doubt not, is with the Lord whom he believed and loved, and in his death was permitted to imitate. There he has high and sacred communion with his Lord, and with every other member of his Lord's sacred and immortal body, as every true member of that sacred body cannot but have communion with him. For he was made, on two most signal occasions of his life, to be the very symbol of unity in God's Church. The symbol of unity is indeed not identical with the head of unity, nor will we so praise and magnify St. Peter as either to eclipse the glory of his brethren the Apostles, or (which, God forbid!) to put him into the place of his Lord. But as the symbol of unity he holds eminent rank and station among the people of God;-such rank, and dignity, and station, and claim of honour, that they who disregard and 11 St. Peter v. 1. 2 St. John xxi. 18. disown and care not for it, would seem to risk putting themselves out of the unity of that body, by whose oneness in Christ the world should believe that God had sent His son 3. 3 St. John xvii. DISCOURSE IV. Ὅτε δὲ ἐπίστευσαν τῷ Φιλίππῳ εὐαγγελιζομένῳ τὰ περὶ τῆς βασιλείας τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐβαπτίζοντο ἄνδρες τε καὶ γυναῖκες.—Act. SS. Apost. viii. 12. Baptismal sion re a sumed. Baptism into the Father, and of name of the of the Son, Holy WHEN We look at the exact terms in which the 1. The Baptismal Commission is given to the Apostles, it Commisis impossible not to perceive that they are of very remarkable kind: "Go ye, make disciples all nations, baptizing them into the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;" or, and of the when the idiom of the original is duly represented Ghost. in the English, "make disciples, and baptize into the Name." For two things are to be done into the Holy Name of the Trinity. The Apostles are to make disciples into the Name, and they are to baptize into the Name; or, more exactly still, they are to make disciples into the Name by baptizing into it. It is plain, therefore, that the Holy Name of God, the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, is made to hold a most remarkable disown and care not for it, would seem to risk putting themselves out of the unity of that body, by whose oneness in Christ the world should believe that God had sent His son 3. 3 3 St. John xvii. all nations, baptize, IPL Father, and of the DOL KA when the idiom of the fu in the English. mäkt Listin twit the Name. For two times are to be con into it. It is plain, therefore, that the Holy Na e ed |