contempt and remorse. Praise be to God who hath delivered us from the Dragon and his error, and saved us from our sins and trespasses by the immersion of baptism and our faith in the Christ, the Word and Light of God. God said by the tongue of Ezekiel the prophet, one of the chief prophets, who prophesied to the children of Israel in the land of Babylon, saying, "I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean from the

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worship of idols and from your sins." We do not know with what God sprinkled men, and cleansed them from their sins, and from the worship of idols, save the immersion of baptism, by which He cleanseth him who believeth in the Christ, and is baptized and obeys God's prophets. Men were never saved from the worship of idols save when the Christ, the Light of God, appeared to us, and received us in baptism. God said by the tongue of Isaiah the prophet, "Wash you, make you clean; put away your sins from before the Lord." What bath or washing puts away the sins of men from before the Lord save the confession of sins and repentance towards God and the immersion of baptism in the name of the Christ? .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .