A Bible History of Baptism

Name: A Bible History of Baptism
Author: Baird, Samuel J. (Samuel John)

Baird, Samuel J. (Samuel John)

Baptism -- Biblical teaching

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


                                PART IV.

                         _RITUAL SELF-WASHINGS._

 SECTION XXV. _Unclean until the Even._—From expiatory rites.
   From contact with the unclean. Self-washing,                      108

 SECTION XXVI. _Grades of Self-washing._—1. The hands. 2. The
   hands and feet. 3. The clothes. 4. The clothes and flesh.
   5. Shaving the hair,                                              111

 SECTION XXVII. _Mode implied in the meaning._—The
   self-washings meant the active putting off of the sins of
   the flesh,                                                        115

 SECTION XXVIII. _The words used to designate the
   Washings._—1. Shātaph. 2. Kābas. 3. Rāhatz,                       116

 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 feet at table,                                                119

 SECTION XXX. _Facilities requisite._—The water drawn from
   wells by women. No vessels for immersion. The bath of
   Ulysses,                                                          126

 SECTION XXXI. _The Washings of the Priests._—Symbolism of
   the tabernacle. The laver. Priestly washings. The laver
   and river of Ezekiel. No immersions here,                         128

 SECTION XXXII. _Like these were the Self-washings of the
   People._—Designations and meaning the same. Immersion
   would have been without meaning,                                  134

 SECTION XXXIII. _Purifyings of things._—One case of
   immersion. Minor defilements cleansed by this immersion
   and by washings. The major, by sprinkling,                        136


                                 PART V.

                _LATER TRACES OF THE SPRINKLED BAPTISMS._

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A Bible History of Baptism

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