PART III.

_ADMINISTERED BAPTISMS=SPRINKLINGS._

SECTION XIII. _Unclean Seven Days._—The meaning. Childbirth. Issues. Contact with the dead. Leprosy. Characterized by (1) inward corruption; (2) seven days continuance; (3) contagiousness; (4) requiring sacrifice and sprinkling, 60

SECTION XIV.—_Baptism of a Healed Leper._—Seven sprinklings. The self-washings. Meaning of the rites, 66

SECTION XV. _Baptism of the Defiled by the Dead._—The ordinary seal of the covenant. The ashes. Manner of the baptism, 68

SECTION XVI. _Baptism from Issues._—The law seemingly incongruous. The water of nidda, 69

SECTION XVII. _Baptism of Proselytes._—Talmudic traditions. Question between the Schools of Shammai and Hillel. The Levitical mode exemplified in the daughters of Midian, 76

SECTION XVIII. _Baptism of Infants._—The principle of infant membership recognized. Evidence of the baptism of Hebrew children. Example of the infant Jesus, 82

SECTION XIX. _Baptism of the Levites._—Sprinkled with “water of purifying,” 85

SECTION XX. _These all were one Baptism._ The rites were essentially the same. Slight differences explained, 86

SECTION XXI. _The Symbol of Rain._—Descent from heaven. Life and fruitfulness imparted. Testimonies of the prophets. Carson’s doctrine, 88

SECTION XXII. _It meant, Life to the Dead._—Men dead by nature. The Spirit shed down gives life to soul and body. Jesus at the grave of Lazarus, 92

SECTION XXIII. _The Gospel in this Baptism._—(1) The red heifer. (2) Without the camp. (3) Blood sprinkled, and blood and water. (4) Seven times. (5) Seven days’ defilement. (6) The ashes. (7) The water. (8) The sprinkling. (9) The third day and the seventh. (10) The self-washing. (11) Things defiled and sprinkled, 95

SECTION XXIV. _These were the “Divers Baptisms,”_—The argument of Heb. ix, 8, 9. The sprinklings were the theme of Paul’s argument. They were his “divers baptisms,” 103