...was come forth from the defarts, and had begun to preach, but " there " went out unto him Jerufalem, and all " Judea, and all the region round about " Jordan, and were baptized of him in " Jordan, confeffing their fins V The difcourfes of the Baptift were marp and piercing as lancets. He applied...

...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. « Out...

...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 partly...

...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...

...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,...baptized of him, IN JORDAN, CONFESSING THEIR SINS !" — From which it is obvious that they were not infants, but perfons capable of confitleration and...

...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 Scribes...

...care ; ana great numbers of them were found in the fissures of trees and the clefts of rocks. 5 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about Jordan, 5. ' Jerusalem.' The people of Jerusalem. ' All Judea.' Many people from Judea. Not literally all the...

...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, which means, the River of Death...

...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 the...