In an inland town in Morocco, where a number of women had professed faith in Christ, the question of baptism arose; two were wishing for it.
I soon discovered that it was a bamboo band returning from the feast of the "baptism of the mill.
Some of them consented to receive Christian baptism before returning home, but it was publicly stated that the Igorrotes were among those who positively refused to abandon their own belief.
This I found to be a native cane-grower's plantation bungalow, where quite a number of persons was assembled, the occasion of the meeting being the baptismand benediction of the sugar-cane mill.
The Sultan at his baptism received the name of Ferdinand I.
An infant was brought for baptism into a country church.
Before the seventeenth century had passed away, they had given to her northern end a baptism of other names.
A prison was to be erected in each county; provision was made for pillory and stocks and duckingstool; the Quakers were to be proceeded against; the Baptists who refused to bring children to baptism were to suffer.
Unto such More late, whate'er of brightness time or will Infirm had dimmed, shone back from infant brows By baptism lit.
The Saint suffers not this, because he had discovered by two notable signs, both at the baptism of Aengus and before it, that the Prince is of those who are called by God to rule men.
He and his people believe, and byBaptism are added unto the Church.
On Patrick's word Ye tell me Baptism is the gate of Heaven: Attend, Sirs!
Who is there of our class to-day who would not have revolted against thebaptism of John when it was first instituted?
Just what those poor people who flocked to the baptism of John expected to see or to hear--just what they expected to gain through his ministrations, it was impossible to say.
It is probable that few who went to the baptismof John could assign a better reason.
Following these come four tarmidos, ordained priests who have undergone the baptism of the dead.
We have been buried therefore with him through baptism in death, that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of life.
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it is fully accomplished!
John baptized in the wilderness, preaching the baptism of a change of mind for the forgiveness of sins.
The baptism of John; was it from heaven, or of men?
And all the people who heard this, and the publicans, justified God, having received the baptism of John.
Later still, the baptism of Samuel Meynell; then the baptism of Susan Meynell; and finally, that of Charlotte Meynell.
I found the record of the baptism of a daughter to the same William and Caroline Mary Meynell, and further on the burial of the said daughter, at five years of age.
The men complained, saying, "Sir, the sum we ought to have for our attendance at the baptism of children of France has for a long while been fixed.
The little dauphin, who had merely been sprinkled, had just received baptismin the chapel of the Castle of St. Germain.
We are able to add also that the rector of the Willoughby Rectory, Alford, finds in the register an entry of the baptism of John, son of George Smith, under date of Jan.
It is very satisfactory that in its baptism of fire the superiority of town class cruiser over German town class light cruiser was so completely established.
Soon both banks of the Canal were ablaze with the spluttering of rifles fired by soldiers undergoing their baptism of fire.
And Patrick said: 'Believe ye that bybaptism you put off the sin of your father and your mother?
For the washing of baptism is no other than spiritual washing, which is regeneration.
Baptism and the Holy Supper are as it were two gates, through which a man is introduced into eternal life.
The sign of the cross which a child receives on the forehead and breast at baptism is a sign of inauguration into the acknowledgment and worship of the Lord.
The whole body of clergy, here spoken of, have undergone the preliminary induction of baptism and confirmation; and all have been duly ordained, professing to hold one faith, and to believe in the selfsame doctrines!
The baptism of thy sorrow shall baptize thy dead, and he shall rise because of it.
We then found that by the baptism or purification, physical and mental, practised by John, was meant the course of life and thought whereby alone man develops the faculty of the understanding of spiritual things.
A baptism of the Spirit--"At last I have found a man through whom I can speak!
Yet Jesus also, being Himself regenerate in the spirit, sought unto the Baptism of John, for thus it became Him to fulfil Himself in all things.
He was especially satisfied with a view of Baptism which he thought rose above both extremes and took in the truth of both while it avoided their errors.
Up and down the line, on either side of the sector where the three chums were to receive their baptism of fire, already begun, could be heard dull booming.
It was December when he and Fray Pedro de Angulo arrived in the Quiche country, where the cacique, who since his baptism was known as Don Juan, showed them the same hospitality as he had to Fray Luis.
He finally succeeded in arresting the butchery, not forgetting, in the midst of all, to administer baptism to the dying.
Luther placed the part Of Confession between Baptism and the Lord's Supper, thereby actually making this the fifth and the Lord's Supper the sixth chief part.
Infant baptismis a human ordinance, not merely useless, but detrimental to the baptism of Christ.
For the profession of the Triune God made by the candidates for Baptism is indeed the echo of His missionary and baptismal command reechoing through all lands and times in many thousand voices.
The booklets on Marriage and Baptism were retained, as additions, in all editions of the Small Catechism published during the life of Luther, and in many later editions as well.
In the Middle Ages the Lord's Prayer and the Creed were called the chief parts for sponsors (Patenhauptstuecke), since the canons required sponsors to know them, and at Baptism they were obligated to teach these parts to their godchildren.
But when and by whom was the formula of Baptism thus amplified?
Hence Luther, in the passage cited from the Large Catechism, declares that in Popery practically nothing of Baptism and the Lord's Supper was taught, certainly nothing worth while or wholesome.
In July of 1525 he published his book Concerning Christian Baptism of Believers, which was directed against Zwingli, whose name, however, was not mentioned.
The chart and book editions added as real parts of the Catechism (the Booklets of Marriage and of Baptism cannot be viewed as such) the Benedicite and Gratias, the Morning and Evening Prayers, the Table of Duties, and Confession.
He also rejected infantbaptism and the Lord's Supper.
It ran as follows: "In the East baptism was frequently practised by immersion, but in a cold climate like ours, where we apply water only to the face and hands, such a practice would be injurious to the health.
Now you must know that baptismis a seal of this covenant, and that all that are baptised do, sacramentally at least, engage themselves to walk before God, and to be upright; and God likewise engages Himself to be their God.
All joining the sect required to be rebaptized, baptism by the impure Church being invalid.
Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
And Jesus said, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptismthat I am baptized with; but to sit on my right hand or on my left is not mine to give.
