An inquiry into the usage of baptizo, and the nature of Christic and patristic baptism
Subtitle: as exhibited in the Holy Scriptures and patristic writings
By: by James W. Dale
Contributors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication
Publisher: Presbyterian Board of Publication
Published: 1874
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 670
Subjects: Baptism
Other titles: Christic and patristic baptism
Table of contents: title: I. What is Christian baptism? : 1. Real; 2. Ritual. A modern theory. Objections to this theory: philological, chronological, symbolical, exegetical; title: 1. Baptism of Jesus by John. A covenant baptism. Not "the baptism of John." A formal covenant, with ritual symbol, "to fulfill all righteousness"; title: 2. Baptism of Jesus by the Holy Ghost. Real baptism. Qualifying to fulfill the covenant assumed; title: 3. Baptism of Jesus into penal death. Emblemized as a drinking from a cup. Drank through life, in Gethsemane, on Calvary. Not martyr baptism. The ground baptism of Christianity. Baptism by drinking from a cup, a common baptism among the Classics. Baptism "into Christ" by the Holy Spirit secures the blessings obtained by Christ through his personal baptism into an atoning death; title: II. Christ, the baptizer by the Holy Ghost : The Holy Ghost abides in Christ as his divine anointing. Christ abides in the Holy Ghost and in the fullness of his influence lives, overcomes Satan, preaches his gospel, works his miracles, offers up himself upon the Cross, rises from the dead, ascends on high, and baptizes the souls of his people ; 1. The Apostles baptized for the apostleship. A baptism, admittedly, without a dipping or a covering. By "pouring," language based on actual baptism by pouring. "Baptism = subjection to full influence." Cloven tongues the emblem in this baptism as water in ordinary baptism, and as the Dove in the Saviour's personal baptism. The importance of this baptism ; 2. Cornelius and other Gentiles baptized by the Holy Ghost. "A higher baptism than water" ; 3. Saul's baptism by the Holy Ghost. No evidence of a ritual baptism. Real baptism for the apostleship ; 4. Baptism of the Samaritans by the Holy Ghost. Why such baptism ; 5. Baptism of the Corinthians by the Holy Ghost. Translation. Admission. "Baptism = participation in influence." All share in it; title: III. Christian baptism preached : 1. To Jews and proselytes. Translation. Interpretation; Campbell, Pusey, Baptists. Nature of the baptism, spiritual, "into the remission of sins" through repentance and faith "upon" the Name of the Lord Jesus. Baptist Quarterly ; 2. The baptism received by the Gladly Hearing. "Baptized" used absolutely. Difficulties of water dipping. Reasons for Real baptism; title: IV. Baptism preached incorporated in a rite : 1. Ritual baptism of Samaritan. The formula declarative of the Real baptism symbolized in the rite. "Into the Name of the Lord Jesus." Import. But "one baptism," realized in the soul by the power of the Holy Ghost, symbolized in the rite by the nature of pure water, applied to the body ; 2. Ritual baptism of the Eunuch. The only case under Christianity appealed to by the theory. "Some water." The Chariot. Went down. Came up. Into. Out of. "The rack" ; 3. Ritual baptism of Gentiles. Perpetuity of ritual baptism. "The water." Observance of the rite commanded "in the Name of the Lord." The use of "water," not quantity, ordained ; 4. Ritual baptism of John's Ephesian disciples. "Into the Name of the Lord Jesus" ; Ritual baptism of Crispus and Gaius. "Into the name of Paul?"; title: V. Ritual baptism of households : 1. Lydia and her household. 2. The Jailer and all his. 3. Stephanas and his household. The family a divine institution. Family unity. Family headship. Individualism; title: VI. Doctrinal truth grounded in real baptism : 1. Real baptism begets holy living. "Baptism in Jesus Christ = into his death" is not ritual baptism with water, but real baptism by the Holy Ghost, Carson, Ripley, Errett, Fee. Wilson, Halley, Beecher, Stuart, Dr. Pusey, Patrists ; 2. Real baptism makes full in Christ. "Baptized into Christ," the equivalent of "put on Christ." Ritual baptism not the equivalent of the one or the other ; 4. Real baptism into Christ, antitype of the type of baptism "into Moses." The Hebrew of Moses and the Greek of Paul. Israel "baptized into Moses" = made fully subject ; 5. Real baptism into Christ inconsistent with Baptism into Paul. Subjection to two Masters impossible ; 6. Real baptism into Christ secures Resurrection unto Life. Baptism for the dead, what? Historical facts uncertain ; 7. Real baptism into Christ makes "one body." The work of the Holy Ghost. All members of the body of Christ so baptized ; 8. Real baptism beyond comparison with ritual baptism. Not the opinion of all. Ritual = Real. Ritual same relation to salvation as repentance and faith. Ritual magnified, Pepper, Curtis ; 9. Real baptism is by repentance and faith through the Holy Ghost. Repentance and faith can baptize. Baptizings. Baptism into unchastity by teaching ; 10. Real baptism is saving antitype baptism. The Ark type of salvation ; 11. Real baptism is the "one baptism" of Christianity. Ritual baptism is not a second, diverse baptism, but is the same one baptism declared by words and shadowed in a symbol