...HaTW, 6 Aoj/og, xai to aand the Holy Ghost: and wuua' *at roi these three are one. ' c sv i. 31. T/6at he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. He was sent to baptize the people with water, that being gathered together they might hear and see...

...me cometh a man which is preferred before me ; for he was before me. And I knew him not : but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. And he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit...

...instituted by Joliji; at least ihis is his declaration (John i. 31,) "and I knew him not but that he might be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water." After so express a declaration, one wonders how this ceremony can have been adopted )>y Christians...

...me cometh a man, which is preferred before me, for he was before me, and / knew him not ; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon...

...he of whom I said : After me cometh a man which is preferred before me. And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water," &c. John i. 30, 38. And see Matt. iii. 11, 12; Mark i. 6 — 8; Luke i. 16, 17, 76, 77; iii. 16, 17;...

...then, that he did not receive his commission from him. " And I knew him not," saith he, " but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am...and design of John's mission, he must have been in a pi evious state of obscurity; not in a situation to a ct the part of a legislator by enacting laws...

...manifesting Christ to Israel was the end and design of John's mission, he must have been in a pi evious state of obscurity; not in a situation to act the...legislator by enacting laws or establishing rites. J< hn uniformly ascribes his commission, not to Christ, but the Father, so that to assert his baptism...

...church, and this appointment was declared or made manifest in his baptism. Consequently John says, That he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore, am I come baptizing with water.l As, therefore, the baptism which Christ received, was the divinely appointed means ofdiscovenng...

...after me cometh a Man which is preferred before me; for he was before me. And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water ." Nothing can be more plain, than that the Prophet spake of the Baptist as preparing the way of Jehovah;...

...after me cometh a man which is preferred before me, for he was before me. And I knew him not, but that he should be made manifest to Israel^ therefore am I come baptizing with water." As this was the end to be answered by the ministry of John, so we believe that in fulfilling his office,...