A Bible History of Baptism

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Baird Samuel John. A Bible History of Baptism

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Book I. OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY

Part I. BAPTISM AT SINAI

Section I. —Baptism Originated in the Old Testament

Section II. —No Immersions in the Old Testament

Section III. —The Old Testament Sacraments

Section IV. —The Baptism of Israel at Sinai

Section V. —The Blood of Sprinkling

Section VI. —The Living Water

Part II. THE VISIBLE CHURCH

Section VII. —The Abrahamic Covenant

Section VIII. —The Conditions of the Sinai Covenant

Section IX. —The Promises of the Sinai Covenant

Section X. —The Visible Church was thus established

Section XI. —The Terms of Membership in the Church of Israel

Section XII. —Circumcision and Baptism

Part III. ADMINISTERED BAPTISMS=SPRINKLINGS

Section XIII. —Unclean Seven Days

Section XIV. —The Baptism of a healed Leper

Section XV. —Baptism of those defiled by the Dead

Section XVI. —Purifying from Issues

Section XVII. —The Baptism of Proselytes

Section XVIII. —The Baptism of Infants

Section XIX. —The Baptism of the Levites

Section XX. —These all were one Baptism

Section XXI. —This Symbol was derived from the Rain

Section XXII. —This Ordinance meant, Life to the Dead

Section XXIII. —The Gospel in the Water of Separation

Section XXIV. —These were the Divers Baptisms

Part IV. THE RITUAL SELF-WASHINGS

Section XXV. —Unclean until the Even

Section XXVI. —Gradation of the Self-washings

Section XXVII. —Mode implied in the Meaning of the Rite

Section XXVIII. —The Words used to designate the Washings

Section XXIX. —The Mode of Domestic Ablution

Section XXX. —The Facilities requisite

Section XXXI. —The Washings of the Priests

Section XXXII. —Like these were the Washings of the People

Section XXXIII. —Defilements and Purifyings of Things

Part V. LATER TRACES OF THE SPRINKLED BAPTISMS

Section XXXIV. —Old Testament Allusions

Section XXXV. —Rabbinic Traditions as to the Red Heifer

Section XXXVI. —The Festival of the Outpouring of Water

Section XXXVII. —The Hellenistic Greek

Section XXXVIII. —The Baptism of Naaman

Section XXXIX. – “Baptized from the Dead.”

Section XL. —Judith’s Baptisms

Section XLI. —The Water of Separation in Philo and Josephus

Section XLII. —Imitations of these Rites by the Greeks and Romans

Section XLIII. —Baptism in Egypt and among the Aztecs

Section XLIV. —The Levitical Baptisms in the Christian Fathers

Part VI. STATE OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ARGUMENT

Section XLV. —Points established by the foregoing Evidence

Book II. NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY

Part VII. INTRODUCTORY

Section XLVI. —State of the Question

Part VIII. THE PURIFYINGS OF THE JEWS

Section XLVII. —Accounts of them in the Gospels

Section XLVIII. —Washing the Hands before Meals

Section XLIX. —Baptism upon return from Market

Section L. —A Various Reading

Section LI. —Baptisms of Utensils and Furniture

Part IX. JOHN’s$1BAPTISM

Section LII. —The History of John’s Mission

Section LIII. —Israel at the Time of John’s Coming

Section LIV. —The Nature and End of John’s Baptism

Section LV. —The Extent of John’s Baptism

Section LVI. —John did not Immerse

Section LVII. —John Baptized by Sprinkling with unmingled Water

Part X. CHRIST’s$1BAPTISMS AND ANOINTING

Section LVIII. —The Meaning of his Baptism by John

Section LIX. —The Anointing of the Lord Jesus

Section LX. – “The Baptism that I am Baptized with.”

Part XI. CHRIST THE GREAT BAPTIZER

Section LXI. —The Kingdom of the Son of Man

Section LXII. —Christ is enthroned as the Baptizer

Section LXIII. —Note, on the Procession of the Holy Spirit

Section LXIV. —The Baptism of Fire

Section LXV. —The Baptism of Pentecost

Section LXVI. —The Manner of the Pentecost Baptism

Section LXVII. —The New Spirit Imparted on Pentecost

Section LXVIII. —The Tongues like as of Fire

Section LXIX. —The Gift of Other Tongues

Section LXX. —The Baptism of Repentance for the Remission of Sins

Section LXXI. —Paul’s Doctrine of this Baptism

Section LXXII. —Noah Saved by Water

Section LXXIII. —Christ’s Baptizing Administration

Section LXXIV. —Argument from the Real to Ritual Baptism

Part XII. THE BAPTIST ARGUMENT

Section LXXV. —Baptizo and the Resurrection

Section LXXVI. —The Prepositions

Section LXXVII. – “There was much Water there.”

Section LXXVIII. – “Buried with him by Baptism into Death.”

Section LXXIX. – “Buried with Him in Baptism.”

Section LXXX. —End of the Baptist Argument

Part XIII. BAPTISMAL REGENERATION

Section LXXXI. —The Doctrine is Contrary to the Whole Tenor of the Gospel

Section LXXXII. – “Born of Water and of the Spirit.”

Section LXXXIII. – “The Washing of Water by the Word.”

Part XIV. THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH

Section LXXXIV. —The Ritual Law was not Repealed

Section LXXXV. —Why the Gentiles were Exempt from the Law

Section LXXXVI. —The Christian Passover

Section LXXXVII. —The Hebrew Christian Church

Section LXXXVIII. —The Gentiles Graffed in

Part XV. CHRISTIAN BAPTISM

Section LXXXIX. —History of the Rite

Section XC. – “Baptizing them into the Name.”

Section XCI. – “He that believeth and is baptized.”

Section XCII. —The Formula of Baptism

Section XCIII. —The Administration on Pentecost

Section XCIV. —Symbolic Meaning of this Baptism

Section XCV. —The Mode of the ritual Baptism on Pentecost

Section XCVI. —Other Cases Illustrating the Mode

Section XCVII. – “Baptized into Moses.”

Part XVI. THE FAMILY AND THE CHILDREN

Section XCVIII. —Christ and the Children

Section XCIX. – “Else were your Children unclean but now are they Holy.”

Section C. —Household Baptisms

Conclusion

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Not only does the ordinance of baptism hold a position of pre-eminent honor, as being the door of entrance to all the privileges of the visible church, but it has been distinguished with a place of paramount importance and conspicuity in the transactions of the two grandest occasions in the history of that church, – in sealing the covenant at Sinai, by which Israel became the church of God, and the grace of Pentecost, by which the doors of that church were thrown open to the world. Proportionally interesting and significant is the ordinance, in itself, as symbolizing the most lofty, attractive and precious conceptions of the gospel, and unfolding a history of the plan of God in proportions of unspeakable interest, grandeur and glory. And yet, heretofore, the discussion of the subject has been little more than a disputation, alike uninteresting, inconclusive and unprofitable, concerning the word baptizo.

The present treatise is an attempt to lift the subject out of the low rut in which it has thus traversed, and to render its investigation the means of enlightening the minds and filling the hearts of God’s people with those conceptions, at once exalted and profound, and those high hopes and bright anticipations of the future which the ordinance was designed and so happily fitted to induce and stimulate.

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It appears from the rabbins that, at least during the later period of Jewish history, the purifying of persons was, whenever practicable, performed at Jerusalem, by the hand of a priest, and with water drawn from the pool of Siloam, which flowed from the foot of the temple mount. For the purifying of houses and other things, the ashes were sent throughout the land, and the rites performed where the uncleanness was contracted.

The remaining forms of major uncleanness are those of childbirth, and of issues. (Lev. xii, 2; xv, 13, 19, 20, 25.) The places here referred to in the book of Leviticus contain the only directions as to purifying which specify these cases. Were our attention confined to those chapters, we might imagine that for these defilements there were no purifyings required, except in one single case, a self-washing for men healed of issues. But there are several things which suggest the propriety of looking farther before accepting that conclusion.

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