| INTRODUCTION, | Page 15 |
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| Book I. |
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| OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY. |
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| Part I. |
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| BAPTISM AT SINAI. |
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| Section I. Baptism originated in the Old Testament.—It was familiar to the Jews when Christ came. There were “divers baptisms” imposed at Sinai, | 21 |
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| Section II. No Immersions in the Old Testament.—None in the ritual. None in the figurative language, | 23 |
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| Section III. The Old Testament Sacraments.—1. Sacrifice. 2. Circumcision. 3. The Passover. 4. Baptism, | 24 |
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| Section IV. The Baptism of Israel at Sinai.--Scene at the mount. The covenant proposed and accepted. A great revival. Baptism of the converts. The feast of the covenant, | 25 |
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| Section V. The Blood of Sprinkling.—It was a type of Christ’s atonement, | 30 |
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| 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 |
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| Part II. |
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| THE VISIBLE CHURCH. |
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| 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. No salvation but on its terms, | 37 |
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| Section VIII. The Sinai Covenant.—Its Conditions.—Moses’ commission. 1. “If ye will obey.” 2. “And keep my covenant,” | 42 |
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| Section IX. The Sinai Covenant.—Its Promises.—1. A peculiar treasure. 2. “All the earth is mine.” 3. A priest kingdom. 4. A holy nation. 5. Palestine, | 45 |
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| Section X. The Visible Church Established.—The Church defined. Its name. Its fundamental law. Membership. Family and eldership. Ordinances of testimony. The relation of the ritual law, | 49 |
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| Section XI. The Terms of Membership.—Professed faith and obedience. The same to Israel and Gentiles. Separating the unworthy, | 56 |
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| Section XII. Circumcision and Baptism.—The former sealed the Abrahamic covenant. The latter alone sealed the ecclesiastical covenant of Sinai, | 58 |
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| Part III. |
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| ADMINISTERED BAPTISMS=SPRINKLINGS. |
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| 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 |
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| Section XIV.—Baptism of a Healed Leper.—Seven sprinklings. The self-washings. Meaning of the rites, | 66 |
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| Section XV. Baptism of the Defiled by the Dead.—The ordinary seal of the covenant. The ashes. Manner of the baptism, | 68 |
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| Section XVI. Baptism from Issues.—The law seemingly incongruous. The water of nidda, | 69 |
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| 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 |
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| Section XVIII. Baptism of Infants.—The principle of infant membership recognized. Evidence of the baptism of Hebrew children. Example of the infant Jesus, | 82 |
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| Section XIX. Baptism of the Levites.—Sprinkled with “water of purifying,” | 85 |
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| Section XX. These all were one Baptism. The rites were essentially the same. Slight differences explained, | 86 |
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| Section XXI. The Symbol of Rain.—Descent from heaven. Life and fruitfulness imparted. Testimonies of the prophets. Carson’s doctrine, | 88 |
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| Section XXII. baptizo. It leaves its subjects in the water. Dr. Kendrick’s admissions. A second meaning in baptizo, | 347 |
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| Section LXXVI. The Prepositions.—En. Eis. Ek. Apo. They indicate, not the mode, but the place of the baptisms, | 354 |
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| Section LXXVII. “Much Water there.”—Aenon=The Springs. Many waters. Why Jesus and John resorted to waters, | 360 |
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| 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 referred to. Immersion incongruous to Paul’s conception, | 364 |
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| Section LXXIX. “Buried with him in Baptism.”—Col. ii, 9-13. The doctrine the same as the preceding. Union with the Lord Jesus the controlling idea. “Buried with him in (or, by) the baptism.” The idea of immersion perplexes the exegesis, | 371 |
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| Section LXXX. End of the Baptist Argument.—Baptist scholars concede that baptizo does not mean, to dip, only. It can not then decide the mode. They admit that it leaves its subject in the water. It knows then nothing of the resurrection. The prepositions and waters of Enon do not help the cause. Paul’s burial “in the baptism,” does not allude to the ritual ordinance. In all its parts, the argument fails, | 374 |
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| Part XIII. |
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| BAPTISMAL REGENERATION. |
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| 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 are not so. Treatment of baptism by the evangelists. Paul’s testimony, | 377 |
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| Section LXXXII. Born of Water and of the Spirit.—John iii, 4-8. Metaphor of water. “Water even the Spirit.” John had already stated the way of the new birth, | 384 |
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| Section LXXXIII. “The Washing of Water, by the Word.”—The bridal bath. No formula of baptism. “Sanctify them through thy truth,” | 390 |
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| Part XIV. |
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| THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH. |
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| 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 show it still in force. Paul’s practice. He obeyed the law, but repudiated its righteousness. This view alone harmonizes the history, | 393 |
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| Section LXXXV. Why the Gentiles were exempted.—Not because the law expired. But, unsuited to a world wide extension. Its chief end accomplished. What its survival implied, | 406 |
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| Section LXXXVI. The Christian Passover.—Wine, and blood. The passover a type of Christ’s atonement. It is perpetuated in the Supper, | 408 |
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| Section LXXXVII. The Hebrew Christian Church.—The synagogue system. The sects of Pharisees, Sadducees and Nazarenes. The number and diffusion of the Nazarenes. The Hebrew church after the destruction of Jerusalem, | 411 |
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| Section LXXXVIII. The Gentiles Graffed in.—Mixed churches. Gentile churches. “Out of Zion the law.” The Gentiles graffed in, | 418 |
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| Part XV. |
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| CHRISTIAN BAPTISM. |
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| 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 the Gentiles. Rebaptism at Ephesus. Note on rebaptism, | 424 |
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| Section XC. “Baptizing them into the Name.”—1. Into the name. En; epi; eis. “Into Christ.” “Into the name of Christ.” 2. “The name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.”—“The name of the Lord Jesus,” | 431 |
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| Section XCI. “He that Believeth and is Baptized.”—It refers to ritual baptism; and is a caution against trust in it. Faith is the essential thing, | 437 |
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| Section XCII. The Formula.—Ritualistic view. No formula prescribed by Christ, nor used by the apostles, | 438 |
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| Section XCIII. The Administration on Pentecost.—There was a baptism with water. Dr. Dale’s objections, | |
