[71] Acts xvi. 15, 33. 1 Cor. i. 16.
[72] As at Dorchester and Warborough in Oxfordshire, and Brookland in Kent; each of these have very elaborate mouldings upon them.
[73] At Llanvair Discoed, Monmouthshire.
[74] The Font at West Rounton, of which we have given an engraving, is one of many examples of this. The Centaur, the arrow from whose bow is just about to pierce the monster, probably represents the Deity conquering Satan, or perhaps the continual conflict of the baptized Christian against sin and Satan. The other figure may represent the Divine and human natures united in our Lord. This exceedingly curious Font was discovered during the recent restoration of the little Norman Church of West Rounton, Yorkshire. It was found under the pulpit, of which it formed the base, having been turned over so that the bowl rested on the floor, and so carefully plastered that there was no external indication of its original form. It has now been restored to its former position near the south-west door of the church.
[75] Ezek. iii. 7, 8; ix. 4. Rev. vii. 3; ix. 4; xiii. 16; xiv. 1, 9; xxii. 4.
[76] βαπτἱζω [baptizô], to baptize, ἁνἁ [ana], again.
[77] "God planted a garden eastward;" man went westward when he left it; he turns eastward to remind him of his return. Almost every church in England is built east and west, with the altar at the east.
[78] Phil. ii. 10.
[79] Canon XVIII. 1603.
[80] "Many monuments are covered with seates, or pewes, made high and easie for parishioners to sit or sleepe in, a fashion of no long continuance, and worthy of reformation."—Weaver's Funeral Monuments. Temp. James I.