There can be no two opinions as to the manner in which the eunuch was baptized--it was by immersion. It would seem, too, that had Philip been aware of any other method, that is, had he understood that sprinkling or pouring would answer the purpose, he never would have put himself and the chamberlain to the inconvenience of going down into the water. It is a fair inference, under all the circumstances, that Philip knew of no other method of baptism than by a burial in the water. We have already referred to baptism being spoken of as being "born of water,"[G] and to those paragraphs I call the attention of my readers again. It will be seen that immersion best carries out that idea; indeed, it is only by immersion and being brought forth out of the water, in which a person is brought from one element (water) into another (air), that a birth is represented. Sprinkling or pouring does not represent a birth. [Footnote G: Chapter xxi.] In writing to the saints of Rome, Paul says; "Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are _buried_ with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been _planted_ together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection."[H] [Footnote H: Rom. vi: 3-5.] In writing to the saints of Colosse, the same apostle reminds them that they had been "_buried_ with him [Christ] in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God who hath raised him from the dead."[I] [Footnote I: Col. ii: 12.] In these passages the terms "buried" and "planted" are in plain allusion to the manner in which the saints had received the ordinance of baptism, which could not have been by sprinkling or pouring, as there is no burial or planting in the likeness of Christ's death, or being raised in likeness of his resurrection in that; but in immersion there is, and hence we conclude from all these circumstances that baptism among the saints of God in those days was by immersion, and by immersion alone. Turning to other sources than the scriptures for information, we shall find that the statement that immersion alone was practiced by the early Christians, say for at least nearly three centuries, is sustained by the most respectable testimony. Speaking of baptism in the first century. Dr. Mosheim says: "In this century, baptism was administered in convenient places, without the public assemblies; and by immersing the candidates wholly in water."[J] [Footnote J: Mosheim's Church History (Murdock), third edition, Vol. I, page 87.]