SECTION VI. _The Living water._—A type of the Spirit. Living and salt water. The river of Eden. That of the Revelation and of the prophets. The Dead Sea. Rain and fountains. Their symbolic functions, 31 PART II. _THE VISIBLE CHURCH._ SECTION VII. _The Abrahamic Covenant._—It was the betrothal,—not the marriage. Its terms spiritual, everlasting, exclusive. The Seed Christ. It adumbrated the covenant of grace. No salvation but on its terms, 37 SECTION VIII. _The Sinai Covenant.—Its Conditions._—Moses’ commission. 1. “If ye will obey.” 2. “And keep my covenant,” 42 SECTION IX. _The Sinai Covenant.—Its Promises._—1. A peculiar treasure. 2. “All the earth is mine.” 3. A priest kingdom. 4. A holy nation. 5. Palestine, 45 SECTION X. _The Visible Church Established._—The Church defined. Its name. Its fundamental law. Membership. Family and eldership. Ordinances of testimony. The relation of the ritual law, 49 SECTION XI. _The Terms of Membership._—Professed faith and obedience. The same to Israel and Gentiles. Separating the unworthy, 56 SECTION XII. _Circumcision and Baptism._—The former sealed the Abrahamic covenant. The latter alone sealed the ecclesiastical covenant of Sinai, 58 PART III. _ADMINISTERED BAPTISMS=SPRINKLINGS._ SECTION XIII. _Unclean Seven Days._—The meaning. Childbirth. Issues. Contact with the dead. Leprosy. Characterized by (1) inward corruption; (2) seven days continuance; (3) contagiousness; (4) requiring sacrifice and sprinkling, 60 SECTION XIV.—_Baptism of a Healed Leper._—Seven sprinklings. The self-washings. Meaning of the rites, 66 SECTION XV. _Baptism of the Defiled by the Dead._—The ordinary seal of the covenant. The ashes. Manner of the baptism, 68 SECTION XVI. _Baptism from Issues._—The law seemingly incongruous. The water of nidda, 69 SECTION XVII. _Baptism of Proselytes._—Talmudic traditions. Question between the Schools of Shammai and Hillel. The Levitical mode exemplified in the daughters of Midian, 76 SECTION XVIII. _Baptism of Infants._—The principle of infant membership recognized. Evidence of the baptism of Hebrew children. Example of the infant Jesus, 82 SECTION XIX. _Baptism of the Levites._—Sprinkled with “water of purifying,” 85