Note 2. Heb. xii. 14.
Note 3. John iii. 6, 2.
Note 4. 1 Cor. i. 14-17.
Note 5. See also 1 Pet. i. 23. Luke viii. 4, 11, 15. Here the whole process of conversion is described, and the grand instrumentality is the word or seed, but not a syllable is said of baptism. Also James i. 18.
Note 6. 2 Tim. ii. 14.
Note 7. Jer. xxiii. 29.
Note 8. John xvii. 17.
Note 9. Psalm cxix. 11.
Note 10. 1 Tim. 4.
Note 11. Verbum Dei est medium salutis efficacissimum, quippe cujus vis non est tantum objectiva, sed etiam effectiva. Hollazii Theol. Dog. II. p. 452. See the writer's Elemental Contrast, pp. 26, 27.