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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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' For a full discussion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> question <strong>of</strong> t^e<br />

baptism <strong>of</strong> proselytes, see Appendix XII.<br />

* <strong>The</strong> following very significant passage may here<br />

be quoted: *A man who is guilty <strong>of</strong> sin, <strong>and</strong> makes<br />

confession, <strong>and</strong> does not turn from it. to whom is<br />

he like f To a man who has in his h<strong>and</strong> a defiling<br />

reptile, who, even if he immerses in all <strong>the</strong> waters<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> world, his baptism avails him nothing; but<br />

let him cast It from his h<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> if he immerses in<br />

only forty seah <strong>of</strong> water, immediately his baptism<br />

avaUB him.' On <strong>the</strong> nmo page<br />

FROM BETHLEHEfii TO JORDAN.<br />

^^^^ that <strong>the</strong> hearers <strong>of</strong> John shoald give this as<br />

evidence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir re-^ pentanoe, that, like persons<br />

defiled, <strong>the</strong>y sought purification, <strong>and</strong>, like<br />

strangers, <strong>the</strong>y sought admission among <strong>the</strong> people<br />

who took on <strong>the</strong>mselves <strong>the</strong> Rule <strong>of</strong> God ? <strong>The</strong>se<br />

two ideas would, indeed, have made it truly a '<br />

baptism <strong>of</strong> repentance/ But it seems difficult to<br />

suppose, that <strong>the</strong> people would have been

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