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It is found in Romans 6^ 3 : 4. ** Know ye not, that so many of us ad were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death 7 Therefore we are buried with him by bap-* tism iuto death ; that like as Christ was raised up f^om the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.** These two verses teach most oeautifully and clearly the true " symbolism'* of the ordinance of baptism. To help establish believers in *' th r faith once delivered to the saint3," I aere with quote what son»e of the greatest 2 scliolars and thinkers of other com- DQunione say, in reference to this celebrated passage, in which the great apostle of the gentiles embodied his inspired idea as to the inward spiritual thought, of the out- ward visible emblem. 1 Methodists. John Wesley in his fafnous ** Notes'' on the New Testament says in commencing on Romans 6» 4. *' Al- luding to the ancient manoer of baptizing by immersion,^ — that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory, (glorious po ver) of the Father, so we also by the same power, should ri^e again. And as he livifiB a new life in heaven, ho we should walk in newness of life." Dr.. Adam CLrke, in his celebre^ted commentary, says on this passage : '' It is probable that the apostle here alludes to the mode of administering baptism by immersion, the whole body being put under the water : ^hich seen^ed to say, the man is drowned, is dead; ^nd when he came up out of the water, he seemed to have a i h i f h Tesurrection to life ; the man ie risen again, he ie aliye.^' Benson also admits the passage to refer to the ancient manner of baptizing bj im version. 2. Presbyterians. Rey« Thos. Chalmers, D. D,, L LD,, says on this passage : ** The original meaning of the word baptism is immersion, and though we regard it as a point of indifferency whether the ordinance 60 named be performed in (his way or by sprinkling, yet we doubt not that the prevalent style in the apostle's days was by an actual submerging of the whole body under water. We advert to this for the purpose of throwing 1 ght on the analogy that is instituted in these verses. Jesus Christ by death, underwent this sort of baptism, even immersion under the surface of the ground, wl^ence he soon emerged again by his resurrection. We, by being baptized into his death, are conceived to have made a similar translation. In the €kct of descending under the water of bap^ iism to have resigned an old life ; and in "%. the act of ascending to emerge into a eecoad or new life." The learned ScbBfifsays oq this passage, Horn. 6 s 3 : " The meaning of baptizo in this passage is undoubtedly immerse, and tl« whole torce and beauty of the illustra- tion, lies in the yery allusion to the act of iiumeraion and emersion.'' Dr. J aoies McKnight says on Bom. 6 ; 4, '^ Christ's baptism was not the baptism of repentance, for he never oommittei any sin ; but he submitted to be iMkptised, that ie, to be buried under the water by John, and then raised out again.'' 3. Episcopalians. Gonybeare and How- son say : " It is needless to add that bap- tism was (unless in exceptional cases) ad- minissered by immersion, the convert being plunged beneath the surface of the water, to represent his death to the life of sin,and then raised from this momentary burial to represent his resurrection to the life of .righteousness. It must be a subject of regret that the general discontinuance of -«••■: ■if 16 i.. this origiaal form of baptism , tfaoitgh per* haps neceseary in our northern cHmatedy has rendered obecure to popular appre* hension some very important passages of Scripture.** See " Life of St. Paul/* Archdeacon Farrar, D D., F. R. S » says in hi3 famous, " L^£e of St. Paul" : "The lifa of the christian being hid with Cnriet in God, his death with Christ is a death to j^n, his resurrection with Christ is a repurrection to life. The dipping under the waters of baptism, is hie union with Christ's death ; his rising out of the waters of baptism is a resurrection .with Christ and the birth to a new life.*^ . : Canon Liddon, in his " Bampton Lectures,'* page 346, says: "As the neophyte ( i. «., new coDrert) is plunged beneath the water3» so the old nature is slain and buried with Christ. As Christ crucified andsntombed, rises with resistless might from the grave which can no longer hold him, so, to the eye of faith, the christian is raided ijom the hath of rege«if eration, radiant with a ne?^ and super* natural life. HiB gaze is to be fixed henceforth on Ohrist, who, beiag raised from the dead/dieth no naore.'^ Dean Goulburn of Norwich Cathedral, Bog., (who was elected from the Epicopal Bcholars, to deliver the ** Bampton Lee* tures" one year, as was Canon Liddon, of St. Paul's Cathedral, aid her year), says on pa^e 18, '* There can be no doubt that baptism when administered in the pristine and most correct form, is a divine- ly constituted emblem of bodily resurrec* tion. • • • Animation having been for one instant suspended ben.ath the water ; a type this of the interrupt' tion of man's energies by death ; the body is lifted up again into the air by way of expressing emblematically, the new birth of resurrection*" The Bpiscopaliaus are the last to deny that immersion was the apostolic mode of baptism, especially as their rubric com- mancls their ministers in the ** public i '^ i I, baptism ot intants," ^'to dip it in the water discreetly and warily.'* I will now give you one extract from the pen of Dr. Paine, Professor of Eccles- iaHical Hiatory in the Gongrfgational Theological Seminary at Bangor, Maine, U. S. He teaches his students t^at im- mersion prevailed in all the apostolic churches. When charged -by some of his Congregat'onal brethren with Baptist senti- ments, he gave them the following trenchant reply, in an article in the ''Ohnstian Jlf^rror," of Aug.g 3rd, 1875. " A.S to the question of fact, the testimony is ample and decisive. No matter of church history is clearer. The evidence is all one way, and all church historians of any repute agree in accepting it. We cm»* not claim even originally in teaching it in a Congrega clonal Seminary ; and we really feel guilty of a kmd of anachronism in writing an article to insist upon it. It is a point on which ancient, medis&val and mjdern hietoriaaa alike. Catholics and Pmtefitatitd, Lutherans and CalyinistSy have no controversy ; and the simple rea- son for this uniformity is, that the state- 'tnents of the early fathers are so clear, and the light &hed upon these statements from the early cueionis of the church is f^o conclusive, that no historian who cares for h (3 reputation would dare to devy it^ and no historian who is worthy of the name would wish to. There are some historical questions concerning the early church on which the most learned writers disagree . . . but on thij one, of the early practice of immersion, the mo^t distin- guished antiquarians, — such as Bingham, Agueti, Coleman, Sm th ; and historians, — such as Mosheim.Glesler, Hase, Nean* der, Millmaa, Schaff, and Al2rog (Catholic) holjd a common language. . . . Any scholar who denies that immersion was the baptism of the Christian church for thirteen cecturiet, betrays utter ignorance or sectarian blindness.'^ i •• 1 t ,: ' t 4 «. 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