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The Covenant <strong>and</strong> Baptism<br />
with a girdle of a skin about his loins: <strong>and</strong> he<br />
did eat locusts <strong>and</strong> wild honey: <strong>and</strong> preached,<br />
saying, there cometh one mightier than I after<br />
me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy<br />
to stoop down <strong>and</strong> unloose. I indeed have<br />
baptized you with water: but he shall baptize<br />
you with the Holy Ghost,” Mark 1:4,―8.―<br />
“Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the<br />
<strong>baptism</strong> of repentance, saying unto the people,<br />
That they should believe on him which should<br />
come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus,” Acts<br />
19:4. Compare Matt. 3, Luke 3, <strong>and</strong> John 1.<br />
Hence, we learn, 1 st , That John proclaimed<br />
that the kingdom of God was at h<strong>and</strong>: that he<br />
was the forerunner of Messiah: <strong>and</strong> that, when<br />
he appeared, all confidence in fleshly descent<br />
would be vain, Matt. 3:9.<br />
2d, Those who believed his doctrine<br />
confessed their sins, professed repentance, <strong>and</strong><br />
were baptized, Luke 7:29, 30.<br />
3d, Jesus himself was baptized before<br />
entering on his public work; thus,<br />
acknowledging the truth of John’s doctrine,<br />
<strong>and</strong> setting an example of obedience to the<br />
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