ual. This latter seal is baptism,accompanied by the crucial sign. Thus Valesius, andothers expound it, and term it the seal of our Lord,because in the very nature of it there is contained a cove-nant made between God and man, of which the sign or ^^ In the Landmarks of Masonry, this pentangular… … symbol of the cross is the seal. Hence Thecla said to St.Paul— Give me the seal of Christ and no temptationshall have power over me. And the shepherd Hermas,speaking of some who had died after baptism, says— They were sealed with the seal of the Son of God, andare entered into the kingdom of God.…
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