And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
Ver. 48. To be baptized] The use of the sacraments is to seal up adoption in infants, and faith in those of riper years.
And he commanded them to be baptized] And so to be incorporated into Christ's body the Church: that they might be saved by the "washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost," Titus 3:5. It is a noble question in divinity, seeing regeneration is attributed both to the word and to baptism, how the one worketh it differently from the other? Or, if both work it, why is not one superfluous?