.

[217:5] 1 Cor. xiv. 27. The gift of "interpretation of tongues" (1 Cor.
xii. 10) was quite as wonderful as the gift of "divers kinds of tongues"
(1 Cor. xii. 10).

[218:1] Censers were introduced into the Church about the fourth or
fifth century. Bingham, ii. 454, 455.

[218:2] 1 Cor. xvi. 19; Col. iv. 15; Philem. 2.

[218:3] Matt. iii. 4.

[218:4] The rite of confirmation, as now practised, has no sanction in
the New Testament. The "baptisms" and "laying on of hands," mentioned
Heb. vi. 2, are obviously the "divers washings" of the Jews, and the
_imposition of hands on the heads of victims_. The laying on of the
apostles' hands conferred miraculous gifts. Had the apostle referred to
Christian baptism in Heb. vi. 2, he would have used the singular number.

[218:5] Lightfoot affirms that the use of baptism among the Israelites
was as ancient as the days of Jacob. He appeals in support of this view
to Gen. xxxv. 2. "Works," iv. 278.

[219:1] Lightfoot's "Works," iv. 409, 410. Edit. London, 1822.

[219:2] Acts x. 2, 44-48, xvi. 15, 33, xviii. 8; 1 Cor. i. 16.

[219:3] Acts viii. 37.

[219:4] Mark xvi. 16; John iii. 18.

[219:5] Matt. xix. 14; Luke xviii. 15. In the New Testament children are
described as uniting with their Christian parents in prayer (Acts xxi.
5). Were not these children baptized? They were no doubt brought up "in
the _nurture_ and admonition of the Lord" (Eph. vi. 4).

[220:1] Col. ii. 11, 12, 13.

[220:2] Col. i. 2, iii. 20; Eph. vi. 1, 4.

[220:3] 1 John ii. 12.

[220:4] Acts ii. 38, 39.

[220:5] 1 Cor. vii. 14. The absurdity of the interpretation according to
which _holy_ is here made to signify _legitimate_, is well exposed by Dr
Wilson in his treatise on "Infant Baptism," p. 513. London, 1848.

[220:6] This would, indeed, have been almost, if not altogether,
impossible. They would probably act somewhat differently at the river
Jordan and in such a place as the jail at Philippi.

[220:7] [Greek: Baptizo].

[221:1] Dr Wilson has demonstrated the incorrectness of Dr Carson's
statements on this subject. See his "Infant Baptism," p. 96.

[221:2] Wilson's "Infant Baptism," p. 157. In Titus iii. 5, 6, there is
something like a reference to this mode of baptism: "The washing of
regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost which _he shed_ (or _poured
out_) on us abundantly." [Greek: Ou execheen eph' hemas plousios].

[221:3] In some cases, as at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost,