proof of his opiaion, brings a notable Quotation out of 
S*^ Paulmus's Epiftles. But he needed not to have lent 
iss fo far off for a Voucher if he had taken good notice 
of the Imagery on the Eaft fide of this ftone; as I doubt 
not, S% but you have done. We have there, f airly rc- 
prefented^ a perfon in a long Sacerdotal Habit dipping a 
Child into the water ; and a Dove fthe Emblcme, no 
doubt, of the H. GAo/,) hovering over the Infant. Now, 
S\ I need not acquaint you, that the Sacrament of Bap- 
tiifm was antiently adminiftered by plunging into the 
^ater, in the Weftern as well as Eaftern parts of the 
Churchy and that the Gothic word OiAnngA-N (Mar, 
I. And Luc. 3. 7. and 12.} the German word tauften, 
the Banijh ^inhZ, and the Belgic DOOpCtt, doe as clearly 
make out that pradiile, as the Greel^ word bc«7^?/(« ; Nor, 
that they may all feenv to be deriv d fromC'^-Trlf/jf] another 
word o£ the lame Language and fignification; and are 
evidently akin to our Englijh gr)tp, 2Deep, and 3)ept]^* 
AtoA owt Saxon Anceftors expreffed the Action of Bap- 
tilni by a word of a different Import from the reft. For, 
in the forementioned place of S'^ Mar}(s Gofpell, their 
Tranflation has the Text thus : Ic eop pulli^c on p«t;epe. 
heeop puria^onhal5;ura sap^e i.e. Ego vos aquis Bapti^ol 
tile vos Spiritu San^oBaptiyibit. Where the word p^Hian 
or puUi^ean fignifies only fimply Lavare : whence the 
Latin word Julio, and our Fuller have their Original. 
But from heoce to conclude that the Saxons did not 
ute dipping in the Sacrament of Baptilm, is fomewhat 
too harih an Argument. 
2. There are other Draughts on the North and Weft 
fide of the Font, which may very probably make for our 
purpofe : but with thefe (as not thoroughly underftand- 
ing them, and having not had an opportunity of getting 
them drawn in paper) I fliall not trouble you at ore- 
lent. ^ 
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