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.

ACTS CHAP. XIX. from Vers. 1. to Vers. 19.

OThers at Ephesus there were, that were no further gone in Christianity neither, then the knowledge of the Baptism of John: Paul asks them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost? They answer, We have not yet so much as heard whether the Holy Ghost be: In which words they refer to a common and a true tenet of the Nation, which was, that after the death of Ezra, Haggai, Zachary and Malachy, the Holy Ghost departed from Israel and went up: Juchas. fol. 15. and they profess they had never yet heard of his restoring. And it is very probable, that they had never heard of Jesus; whom when Paul had preached to them, they imbrace; and the Text saith, they were then baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Not that they were rebaptized, but that now coming to the knowledge of the proper end of Johns baptism, namely to believe in Jesus as ver. 4. they own their baptism to such an end and construction. For 1. What need had they to be rebaptized, when in that first baptism they had taken, they had come in to the profession of the Gospel and of Christ, as far as the doctrine that had brought them in could teach them? It was the change of their profession from Judaism to Evangelism, that required their being bap∣tized, and not the degrees of their growth in the knowledge of the Gospel, into the pro∣fession of which they had been baptized already. How many baptisms must the Apostles

have undergone, if every signal degree of their coming on to the perfect knowledge of the mystery of Christ, might have required, nay might have admitted a new baptizing? 2. If these men were rebaptized, then must the same be concluded of all that had recei∣ved the baptism of John, when they came to the knowledge of Jesus: which as it is in∣credible, because there is not the least tittle of mention of such a thing, so is it unimagi∣nable in the case of those of the Apostles that were baptized by John; for who should baptize them again in the name of Jesus, since Jesus himself baptized none? Joh. 4. 3. 3. These men had taken on them the baptism of repentance, and the profession of Christ, in the baptism of John, that they had received: therefore unless we will suppose a baptism of faith, different from the baptism of repentance, and a baptism in the name of Jesus dif∣ferent from the baptism in the name of Christ, it will be hard to find a reason, why these men should undergo a new baptizing.

And if it should be granted [which is against reason to grant,] that these men were re∣ally rebaptized, yet were not this a warrantable ground for rebaptization now, in regard of these main differences betwixt the case then and now. 1. That great controversie then on foot, about, Whether Jesus were the true Messias or no, which caused their rebaptizati∣on, if they were rebaptized. 2. The visible conferring of the Holy Ghost upon them, up∣on their baptism if they were rebaptized: as being a main induction of such a thing, if such a thing were, that the name of Jesus might be so apparently glorified, upon their being baptized in the name of Jesus: which indeed was equally glorified, when they re∣ceived those gifts upon their acknowledging of Jesus, and owning their baptism that they had of old been baptized with, as a badge of that acknowledgment, though not baptized again.