...and a leathern girdle about his loyns ; and his meat was locufts and wild hony. 5 Then went out to him Jerufalem and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, cohfeffing their fins. 7 ^ But when he faw many of the Pharifees...

...and a leathern girdle about his loyns; and his meat was locufts and wild honey. 5 Then went out to him Jerufalem and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, 6 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confeffing their fins. 7 ^ But when he faw many of the Pharifees...

...wildernefs. His baptifm feeras as if it were almoft national, Matthew iii. 5. " then went «tit- to him Jerufalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptifed of him (EN) in or at Jordan." For he was the forerunner of the Mefiiah to prepare his way....

...the evangelift rhantiz'd him : "Out * Matt. iii. 5. 6. Then went out to him Jerufalem, and an Judca, all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, ecmjeffing their Jins.— A rood convincing proof of infant-fprinkling ! t Rejoinder, p. 253....

...forerunner, lalt page. SERSERMON II. 9 Matth. iii. 5, 6. 'then went out to him Jerufalem, and all Judcea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, confejflng their Jins. John, fent to prepare the way of the Lord, pag. 24. • to be fliewn...

...name'of the Lord JESUS." If it be objected here, that we are told, Matth. iii. 5, 6. " There went out to him Jerufalem, and all Judea, and " all the region...round about Jordan, and were baptized " of him in- Jordan, confcffing their fins ;" and that it is not to'be imagined, all thefe made any credible profeffio,n...

...advert to the firft account of Baptifm in the facred word of God, Matt. iii. 5. " Then went out to him Jerufalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him, IN JORDAN, CONFESSING THEIR SINS !" — From which it is obvious that they were not infants, but perfons...

...experience. In hiftorical paflages, it is different, as in Matt. iii. 5, 6. Then went out to him Jenifalemt and all Judea% and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan. Here, we muft underftand only a part of Jerufalem, &c. For we are elfewhere told, that the...

...plainly appears from the account given of him by Matthew, to which I already alluded. Thither reforted to him Jerufalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, confelling their fins. Oar Prophet, through trfe iniiuence of the Holy Spirit, foreleeing that...

...had travelled up to and crossed over the Jordan. " Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, and were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins." There was deep significance in John's thus baptizing in the Jordan,...