by the faith which we profess in baptism the heart is illumined: Call to remembrance, says the apostle, alluding to the time of baptism, the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions.y Chrysostom, in his sermon to the baptized, calls it moreover a purgation, because through baptism we purge out the old leaven, that we may be a new lump,z also a burial, a planting, and the cross of Christ;a the reasons for all which appellations may be gathered from