11.16]

[Footnote 88: Acts 2.16, 18; Joel 2.28, 29]

[Footnote 89: Acts 2.16, 18; Joel 2.28, 29]

[Footnote 90: Mat. 3.11; Mark 1.8; Luke 3.16; Jon. 1.26, 33]

[Footnote 91: Mark 1.4, 5]

[Footnote 92: Mat. 4.19; Mat. 9.9]

[Footnote 93: Jon 4.2]

[Footnote 94: Mark 2.14; Luke 5.27]

[Footnote 95: Jon. 3.22; Jon. 4.2]

[Footnote 96: Jon. 3.22; Jon. 4.2, 3]

[Footnote 97: Jon. 7.22, 23; Luke 2.21, 24]

[Footnote 98: Luke 5.14]

[Footnote 99: Leviticus 14]

[Footnote 100: Mat. 3.15]

[Footnote 101: Luke 2.21]

[Footnote 102: Mat. 5.17; Luke 5.14]

[Footnote 103: Mat. 10.5; Mat. 10.23]

[Footnote 104: Acts 7.8]

[Footnote 105: Mat. 3.15]

[Footnote 106: Acts 1.5; Acts 11.16]

[Footnote 107: Jon. 19.30]

[Footnote 108: 1 Cor. 12.31; Col. 2.14, 17]

[Footnote 109: Heb. 10.1, 9; Heb. 9.13, 28; Heb. 9.12]

[Footnote 110: Acts 1.11]

[Footnote 111: Acts 1.12; Acts 1.4; Acts 24.49; Acts 2.1, 18; Jon.
16.16, 22]

[Footnote 112: Jon. 14.16, 21]

[Footnote 113: 1 Cor. 12.13; Gal. 3.28; Acts 2.16, 18]

[Footnote 114: Life of St. Paul P. 52]

WATER BAPTISM AND CHRISTIAN BAPTISM

Water is not to be understood whenever baptism is named; neither is
baptism to be understood whenever water is named. There are many
baptisms without water mentioned in Scripture and elsewhere.

The four evangelists and Peter each define two different and distinct
baptisms following closely after each other. First John's baptism of
water, then Christ's baptism of the Holy Spirit. Our Saviour also
testified to these two independent baptisms but to no other baptism as
the result or successor of these two. He speaks of one as past and of
the other as yet to come.[115]

Many years later, Paul said there was only one baptism; one Lord, one
faith, one baptism.[116]

One of these two baptisms which Christ and all the evangelists tell us
about must have ended before Paul wrote. Which baptism had ended? Which
remains? Can any Christian doubt which baptism remains to us? Christ's
death, resurrection, ascension and return at Pentecost had all
intervened between the time when John told the Jews of two baptisms and
the time when Paul claimed there was but one. During this time Christ
had blotted out ordinances and nailed them to his cross. He made no
reservation 3 of water baptism. It went with the rest.[117]

Christian baptism came in fullness; water baptism ended.

Near the close of Peter's ministry he said: The bap