CHAPTER VII

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THE FIRSTFRUITS OF PENTECOST.

ACTS ii. 37-39.

Contrast between Our Lord's Preaching and that of His Apostles--Proof of Extraordinary Work of the Spirit-- Evidence of Tacitus--Spiritual Power a Different Thing from Religious Knowledge--Character of St. Peter's Teaching--Repentance--Modern Antinomianism--Williams, Baxter, Stillingfleet, Wesley--St. Peter and Baptism-- Baptism in the _Didache_--Story of that Manual and its Discovery--The Baptismal Formula--Immersion--Infant Baptism--St. Peter and the Power of the Keys 127-147

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