The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. And there he tarried and Baptized.

Yet Jesus himself baptized not, but his Disciples, Chap. 4. 2. It is ordinary both in Scri∣pture phrase and in other languages, to ascribe that as done by a man himself, that is done by another at his appointment, as Act. 7. 21. Pharaohs daughter is said to nurse Moses, 2 King. 6. & 7. Solomon is said to build the Temple and his own house, 1 Sam. 26. 11, 12. 14. David took the Spear and cruse: meaning Abishai by Davids appointment: 2 King. 22. 16. The Book which the King of Judah hath read, that is, which they have read before him, as 2 Chron. 34. 24. explains it, &c.

Jesus himself baptizeth not, 1. Because he was not sent so much to Baptize as to preach, as Paul also saith of himself, 1 Cor. 1. 17. 2. Because it might have been taken as a thing something improper, for Christ to have baptized in his own name. 3. The baptizing that was most proper for Christ to use, was not with water, but with the Holy Ghost, Act. 1. 5. 4. Because he would prevent all quarrellings and disputes among men about their Ba∣ptism, which might have risen if some had been baptized by Christ, and others only by his Disciples.

It is no doubt but these Disciples of Christ that baptized others, were baptized them∣selves: Now who baptized them? Not Christ; for he Baptized none; but they were baptized by John the Baptist, for it is apparent that some of them were baptized by him, Joh. 1. 35. 37. 40. and that teacheth us also to judge so of the rest. And by this very thing it is evident, that the Baptism of John and the Baptism of the Apostles was but one and the same whatsoever the Schoolmen have said to the contrary, unless the Disciples bapti∣zed others with a better Baptism than they themselves were baptized with.

Observe that the administration of the Ordinances of Christ by his Ministers, ac∣cording to his institution, is as his own work: The Disciples baptizing is called his baptizing.

Vers. 23. And Iohn also was Baptizing.

His Sun is now ere long to set, and the Evangelist here giveth you account of his last actions and Ministery whilest he was abroad and at his liberty. If his imprisonment were but a little before Christs departure into Galilee, mentioned in the next chapter, as it is like it was, he had been a publick preacher and baptizing near upon twenty months.