if I am not greatly mistaken I find no account of John or any of the apostles administering the ordinance of babtism untill they become believers in Christ or at least untill they considered them true believers & that appeared to be all that was required of them in order to be babtized was to believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God & if they spiritually believed this they must be penitent believers & respecting the mode of babtism it appears plain to me that their is no room for one a moment to doubt but that our saveiour was buried in babtism in the river Jordan and that all that the Apostles babtized ware buried with Christ in babtism & setting aside evry other example but the one that Christ left us that alone ought to be sufficient to convince mankind that emmersion was the rite & ownly mode of babtism

has not Christ plainly told us that he is the way ^the truth life^ & if mankind ever enter in to the kingdom of heaven must it not be by him isf so then ought we not to obey his commands and follow his precepts & not climb up some other way.