Category: History - Religious
SECTION VI. _The Living water._—A type of the Spirit. Living and salt water. The river of Eden. That of the Revelation and of the prophets. The Dead Sea. Rain and fountains. Their symbolic functions, 31
The phrases, “the kingdom,” “the kingdom of heaven,” etc., have primary reference to that throne and kingdom to which the Lord Jesus was exalted, when he rose from the dead, and...
21. PART V.The rite of purifying with the ashes of the red heifer was one of the most familiar and impressive of the Mosaic institutions. That its observance was maintained through the who...
19. PART III.In the laws of Moses there were two grades of uncleanness defined—uncleanness of seven days, and uncleanness till the even. The former was a symbol of that essential corruption...
31. PART XV.But two of the evangelists, Matthew and Mark, mention baptism in connection with the last instructions of Jesus; and of these, Mark introduces it in an incidental way, as though...
20. PART IV.The clean, that is those who had been purified by sprinkling, were liable to contract certain minor defilements, which were characterized by continuing until the even. Of these...
30. Part XIV.In the entrance of the church upon her new commission, her constitution was unchanged. But the ordinances of testimony with which she was entrusted received an essential modific...
28. PART XII.The argument in proof that the disciples of John and of Christ were immersed comprehends four essential propositions. (1) That _baptizo_ means, to dip, to plunge, to immerse, to...
32. PART XVI.At this stage of our inquiry, we note the following points which have important bearings upon the relation of the children to the church. (1.) We have seen that, in the establis...
25. PART IX.The account of John’s ministry in the evangelists, is invariably introduced by an appeal to the prophecies which foretold his coming and office. A remarkable passage from Malach...
18. PART II.The interest attaching to the Sinai baptism is greatly enhanced by its immediate and intimate relation to us. The covenant then sealed is the fundamental and perpetual charter o...
26. PART X.“Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him. But John forbade him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee; and comest thou to me? And Jesus an...
29. PART XIII.Paul was yet in the meridian of his strength, and the most active period of his ministry, when he wrote to the Thessalonians that “the mystery of iniquity doth already work,”—th...
17. PART I.At the time of Christ’s coming, baptism was a rite already familiar to the Jews. The evangelists testify of them that, “when they come from the market, _except they baptize_ (_e...
24. PART VIII.The fact has been referred to already that at the great passover, in the days of Hezekiah, to which the remnant of the ten tribes were invited by the king, “a multitude of the p...
16. PART XVI.SECTION XCVIII. _Christ and the Children._—A retrospect. Christ’s attitude toward the lambs. Peter’s commission. The Jews predominant in the church. The Sinai covenant recognize...
23. PART VII.Before entering upon an examination of the New Testament, it will be well to notice distinctly what, at this stage of our inquiry, is the precise state of the question to which...
22. PART VI.4. There is not, anywhere, in the Old Testament an allusion to immersion as a symbolic rite, nor a figure derived from it, although those Scriptures are full of allusions and fi...
11. PART XI.SECTION LXI. _The Kingdom of the Son of man._—“The kingdom of heaven.” Destined to man at creation. Satan’s scheme. The kingdom in the prophets. John’s proclamation. Christ’s tr...
3. PART III.SECTION XIII. _Unclean Seven Days._—The meaning. Childbirth. Issues. Contact with the dead. Leprosy. Characterized by (1) inward corruption; (2) seven days continuance; (3) cont...
15. PART XV.SECTION LXXXIX. _History of the Rite._—The cotemporaneous baptisms of John and Jesus. Both were the same Christian baptism. Christ did not _institute_ baptism, but gave it to th...
5. PART V.SECTION XLII. _Imitations by the Greeks and Romans._—Diffusive influence of Israel. The stain of crime, and purgation for it, novelties in Greece. Purifying always by sprinkled...
12. PART XII.SECTION LXXVIII. “_Buried with him by Baptism into Death._”—Rom. vi, 2-7.—“Buried with him by _the_ baptism into _the_ death.” Analysis of the passage. Spiritual baptism alone r...
4. PART IV.SECTION XXIX. _Mode of Domestic Ablution._—By water poured on. The patriarchs. Mode in Egypt. In the wilderness. Story of Susanna. Purgation of a concealed murder. Washing the f...
14. PART XIV.SECTION LXXXIV. _The Ritual Law is unrepealed._—Christ so left it. The apostles were zealous for it. The council of Jerusalem exempted the Gentiles only. James and Paul unite to...
2. PART II.SECTION VII. _The Abrahamic Covenant._—It was the betrothal,—not the marriage. Its terms spiritual, everlasting, exclusive. The Seed Christ. It adumbrated the covenant of grace....
1. PART I.SECTION VI. _The Living water._—A type of the Spirit. Living and salt water. The river of Eden. That of the Revelation and of the prophets. The Dead Sea. Rain and fountains. The...
9. PART IX.SECTION LVII. _John sprinkled with unmingled Water._—Why the prophecies speak of water only. “The kingdom” John’s theme. Hence, water only. It was sprinkled. Some may have stood...
10. PART X.SECTION LX. “_The Baptism that I am Baptized with._”—Matt. xx, 20-22. The kingdom was to be after the resurrection; and upon condition of being worthy. “The regeneration” was ty...
13. PART XIII.SECTION LXXXI. _Contrary to the whole Tenor of the Gospel._—The mystery of iniquity early developed. The gospel church viewed as the antitype of the Levitical. The Scriptures ar...
8. PART VIII.7. PART VII.SECTION XLVI. _State of the Question._—1. Baptism by sprinkling,—fifteen centuries old,—the Jewish Scriptures full of it,—the Jewish mind molded by it. 2. Immersion,—new,—incong...
6. PART VI.