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

We have indeed, likewise, a second font,^86998699    Lavacrum. [See Aquinas, Quæst. lxvi. 11.] (itself withal one with the former,) of blood, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, “I have to be baptized with a baptism,”^87008700    Luke xii. 50, not given in full. when He had been baptized already. For He had come “by means of water and blood,”^87018701    1 John v. 6. 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^87028702    Matt. xx. 16; Rev. xvii. 14. by blood. These two baptisms He sent out from the wound in His pierced side,^87038703    John xix. 34. See c. ix. ad fin. 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.^87048704    See John vi. 53, etc. This is the baptism which both stands in lieu of the fontal bathing^87058705    Lavacrum. [The three baptisms: fluminis, flaminis, sanguinis.] when that has not been received, and restores it when lost.