{"query": "Easton: Baptism of Christ", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_48613152e266", "title": "Easton: Baptism of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Christ had to be formally inaugurated into the public discharge of his offices. For this purpose he came to John, who was the representative of the law and the prophets, that by him he might be introd"}, {"id": "card_n_d423b7639365", "title": "Easton: Baptism, Christian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An ordinance immediately instituted by Christ (Matt. 28:19, 20), and designed to be observed in the church, like that of the Supper, “till he come.” The words “baptize” and “baptism” are simply Greek "}, {"id": "card_n_5161f6faccae", "title": "Easton: Baptism, John’s", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Was not Christian baptism, nor was that which was practised by the disciples previous to our Lord’s crucifixion. Till then the New Testament economy did not exist. John’s baptism bound its subjects to"}, {"id": "card_n_fb7f817c5014", "title": "Easton: Gospels", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The central fact of Christian preaching was the intelligence that the Saviour had come into the world (Matt. 4:23; Rom. 10:15); and the first Christian preachers who called their account of the person"}, {"id": "card_n_7eb2b20adbc7", "title": "Easton: Kingly office of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the three special relations in which Christ stands to his people. Christ’s office as mediator comprehends three different functions, viz., those of a prophet, priest, and king. These are not th"}, {"id": "card_n_c01d455ff842", "title": "Heidelberg Q78", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Do then the bread and wine become the very body and blood of Christ?\n\nNot at all; but as the water in baptism is not changed into the blood of Christ, neither is the washing away of sin itself; so the"}, {"id": "card_n_8c670b849c0a", "title": "1689 LBCF ch. 29: Of Baptism", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, to be unto the party baptized a sign of his fellowship with him in his death and resurrection. Those who do actually profess rep"}, {"id": "card_n_d8eac9a8c73f", "title": "Easton: Fulness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) Of time (Gal. 4:4), the time appointed by God, and foretold by the prophets, when Messiah should appear. (2.) Of Christ (John 1:16), the superabundance of grace with which he was filled. (3.) Of "}, {"id": "card_n_7a66259b4897", "title": "Westminster Shorter Q94", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "What is baptism?\n\nBaptism is a sacrament, wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaki"}, {"id": "card_n_fb3d5648c4ea", "title": "Easton: Baptism for the dead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only mentioned in 1 Cor. 15:29. This expression as used by the apostle may be equivalent to saying, “He who goes through a baptism of blood in order to join a glorified church which has no existence ["}, {"id": "card_n_f2bb144eaee2", "title": "Easton: Resurrection of the dead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Will be simultaneous both of the just and the unjust (Dan. 12:2; John 5:28, 29; Rom. 2:6-16; 2 Thess. 1:6-10). The qualities of the resurrection body will be different from those of the body laid in t"}, {"id": "card_n_9e88feeb505a", "title": "Easton: Temple", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "First used of the tabernacle, which is called “the temple of the Lord” (1 Sam. 1:9). In the New Testament the word is used figuratively of Christ’s human body (John 2:19, 21). Believers are called “th"}, {"id": "card_n_01067474d2d0", "title": "Easton: Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Anointed, the Greek translation of the Hebrew word rendered “Messiah” (q.v.), the official title of our Lord, occurring five hundred and fourteen times in the New Testament. It denotes that he was ano"}, {"id": "card_n_9b69fdfc4bc2", "title": "Easton: Resurrection of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the cardinal facts and doctrines of the gospel. If Christ be not risen, our faith is vain (1 Cor. 15:14). The whole of the New Testament revelation rests on this as an historical fact. On the d"}, {"id": "card_n_ac10a439bca1", "title": "Easton: Son of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The plural, “sons of God,” is used (Gen. 6:2, 4) to denote the pious descendants of Seth. In Job 1:6; 38:7 this name is applied to the angels. Hosea uses the phrase (1:10) to designate the gracious re"}, {"id": "card_n_fcea49f2a0b0", "title": "Easton: Repentance", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "There are three Greek words used in the New Testament to denote repentance. (1.) The verb metamelomai is used of a change of mind, such as to produce regret or even remorse on account of sin, but not "}, {"id": "card_n_b4a51340736e", "title": "Easton: Intercession of Christ", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Christ’s priestly office consists of these two parts, (1) the offering up of himself as a sacrifice, and (2) making continual intercession for us. When on earth he made intercession for his people (Lu"}, {"id": "card_n_ced4babf8538", "title": "Easton: Gospel", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A word of Anglo-Saxon origin, and meaning “God’s spell”, i.e., word of God, or rather, according to others, “good spell”, i.e., good news. It is the rendering of the Greek evangelion, i.e., “good mess"}, {"id": "card_n_e045f88f1abc", "title": "Easton: Kingdom of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(Matt. 6:33; Mark 1:14, 15; Luke 4:43) = “kingdom of Christ” (Matt. 13:41; 20:21) = “kingdom of Christ and of God” (Eph. 5:5) = “kingdom of David” (Mark 11:10) = “the kingdom” (Matt. 8:12; 13:19) = “k"}, {"id": "card_n_a6c94441bfe4", "title": "Romans 6", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?\n2. May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?\n3. Or don’t you know that all of us who were bap"}]}