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Chapter XVI.—Of the Second Baptism—With Blood.

We have indeed, likewise, a second font,⁸⁶⁹⁹

⁸⁶⁹⁹ Lavacrum. [See Aquinas, Quæst. lxvi. 11.]
(itself withal one with the former,) of blood, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, “I have to be baptized with a baptism,”⁸⁷⁰⁰

⁸⁷⁰⁰ Luke xii. 50, not given in full.
when He had been baptized already. For He had come “by means of water and blood,”⁸⁷⁰¹

⁸⁷⁰¹ 1 John v. 6.
just as John has written; that He might be baptized by the water, glorified by the blood; to make us, in like manner, called by water, chosen⁸⁷⁰²

⁸⁷⁰² Matt. xx. 16; Rev. xvii. 14.
by blood. These two baptisms He sent out from the wound in His pierced side,⁸⁷⁰³

⁸⁷⁰³ John xix. 34. See c. ix. ad fin.
in order that they who believed in His blood might be bathed with the water; they who had been bathed in the water might likewise drink the blood.⁸⁷⁰⁴

⁸⁷⁰⁴ See John vi. 53, etc.
This is the baptism which both stands in lieu of the fontal bathing⁸⁷⁰⁵

⁸⁷⁰⁵ Lavacrum. [The three baptisms: fluminis, flaminis, sanguinis.]
when that has not been received, and restores it when lost.
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