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Our LORD Jesus Christ did command his Ministers also to Baptize them that do believe in him, with Water, in the Name of the Father, Son, and holy Spirit, Mat. 28.19, 20. & Mark 16.15, 16. & Joh. 1.33. Our Lord ⟨p. 73⟩himself was Baptized by John in the River Jordan, Mat. 3.13. Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be Baptized of him. Ver. 16. And Jesus, when he was Baptized, went up straightway out of the Water. [[Greek or Hebrew], ut immergeretur, ver. 13. and ver. 16. [Greek or Hebrew], & immersus Jesus,] Mark 1.5, 9. And were all Dipped of him in the River Jordan, confessing their sins. We read, that both Men and Women were Baptized (when they Believed) Acts 8.12. (But we read not in the holy Scripture of Truth, that any Infants were Baptized.) They that had received the holy Spirit, were commanded to be Baptized with Water, in the Name of the LORD, Acts 10.47, 48. Those Men and Women are fit Subjects of Baptism, that have received the Spirit of Christ; do Believe in Christ; Confess their sins; and Repent, Acts 2.37-41. The Manner of the Administration of this Gospel-Ordinance of Baptism, was thus practised in the Days of Christ, and of his Apostles, to wit, The Person Baptizing, and the Persons Baptized, went into the Water, ⟨p. 74⟩Acts 8.38, 39. And they went down both into the Water, both Philip and the Eunuch; and he Baptized him: That is, Philip Dipped the Eunuch under the Water; and then they came out of the Water, v. 39. The Spirit of God hath inspired the Apostles in writing the holy Scriptures to use one Greek word [viz. [Greek or Hebrew]] for Dipping;