Acts 1:5. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. He reminds them of the strange prediction of the ‘Baptist' (Luke 3:16; John 1:33). ‘His words which you all remember respecting a future baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire, you will soon yourselves be able to test the truth of.' That fiery baptism of Pentecost with which they were so soon to be baptized. Calvin well calls the common baptism of the Church ecclesiae communis baptismus, ‘because it was a great representation on the whole Church of the subsequent continued work of regeneration on individuals' (Alford).

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