Chapter XVI.--Of the Second Baptism--With Blood.

We have indeed, likewise, a second font, ¹ (itself withal one with the former,) of blood, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, "I have to be baptized with a baptism," ² when He had been baptized already. For He had come "by means of water and blood," ³ just as John has written; that He might be baptized by the water, glorified by the blood; to make us, in like manner, called by water, chosen ⁴ by blood. These two baptisms He sent out from the wound in His pierced side, ⁵ in order that they who believed in His blood might be bathed with the water; they who had been bathed in the water might likewise drink the blood. ⁶ This is the baptism which both stands in lieu of the fontal bathing ⁷ when that has not been received, and restores it when lost.