For, imagine to yourself a physician, who possessed an art preventing persons from dying; or, even if they died, immediately restoring them to life so as to live eternally afterwards, how the world would rush and flock around him with money, while the poor, prevented by the rich, could not approach him! And yet, here in _baptism_, every one has such a treasure, and medicine gratuitously brought to his door-a medicine which abolishes death, and preserves all men to eternal life_."-- _P_.

525.
_Luther's Larger Catechism_.
"It (baptism) is, therefore, very appropriately called food for the soul, which flourishes and strengthens the new man; _for through baptism we are born anew;_ but beside this, the old vicious nature in the flesh and blood nevertheless adheres to man, in which there are so many impediments and obstacles, with which we are opposed as well by the devil as by the world, so that we often become weary and faint, and sometimes stumble."-- _Symb.

B_., p.

533.
In the _Visitation Articles_, published fourteen years after the other symbolical books for the purpose of explaining their true import, and then made symbolic in Saxony: ART.

III .-- _On Baptism_.
SECT.II.