The terms _baptize_ and _baptism_ are used in Scripture to express the spiritual regeneration as well as the mystical. On the one hand, we hear of “the _Baptism_ of John;” “I indeed _baptize_ you with water;” “he that believeth and is _baptized_, shall be saved;” “CHRIST sent me not to _baptize_;” “there is one _baptism_;” “they were _baptized_ in the name of JESUS;” “_baptizing_ them in the name of the FATHER, and of the SON, and of the HOLY GHOST;” and many other instances, having reference only to baptism with water. On the other hand, we read, with reference to _spiritual_ baptism, “He shall _baptize you_,” saith John, concerning Jesus, “_with the HOLY GHOST_ and fire;” {23a} where water is not contemplated: “_By one SPIRIT are_ we all” “_baptized_ into one body.” {23b} “So many of us as were baptized into JESUS CHRIST, were baptized into His death. Therefore we are buried with Him by the _baptism unto death_, that like as CHRIST was raised from the dead by the glory of the FATHER, even so we also should walk in _newness of life_. Our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed;” and that we should “yield ourselves unto GOD, as those that are _alive from the dead_.” {23c} And St. Peter, speaking of the salvation of Noah through the flood, says, “The antitype, or counterpart, of which, even _baptism_, doth also now save us; not the putting away of the filth of the _flesh_,” (which is of water baptism,) “but the answer of a _good conscience_ towards GOD,” (which is of spiritual baptism,) “by the resurrection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead.” You have it {24a} also, where the apostle speaks of the Colossians as “circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,” and “_buried_ with CHRIST in _baptism_, wherein also they were _risen with Him through faith_ of the operation of GOD, and _quickened together with Him_.” {24b} Now, whether this latter _baptism_ is, or is not, ever without the former, and the washing of the SPIRIT only synchronous, or not, with that of water; it is unquestionably evident that the two things are perfectly _distinct_, the one from the other.