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- verb Present participle of
baptize .
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Examples
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Now. whether plunging the body into water, or pouring water upon it was the likelieft emblem o r this effu - fion of the Spirit, let the reader judge; eipecially fince $a*l£u, the word con - ftantly ufed for baptizing, Ggnifies any fort of warning, and often fprihkling; not being - retrained to dipping, as its primitive (fla*TSj) is but this I a ft word is never ufed to exprefs baptizing*
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And this way of pouring water upon them, moft naturally fignified thrift's baptizing them with the Holy Ghoft, and with fire, which John fpoke of. as prefigured by his baptizing* with water, fver.ti. and Mark i.
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He tells reporter Peter Clottey from South Africa's capital, Pretoria that the SADC decision amounts to what he called baptizing the devil in President Mugabe.
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Or if they're not Mormon, if they don't believe in baptizing the dead, if this blessing of the dead isn't part of their theology, they still have the possibility, so relevant in a world where more and more people are losing track of their roots, of knowing where they come from, who made them, and who they are.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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The child's corporeal frailty implicitly and explicitly provided the backdrop for the sense of urgency in baptizing infants.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Or if they're not Mormon, if they don't believe in baptizing the dead, if this blessing of the dead isn't part of their theology, they still have the possibility, so relevant in a world where more and more people are losing track of their roots, of knowing where they come from, who made them, and who they are.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three) Bernard-Henri L 2005
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The present conviction went so far that he was baptized, was admitted, as other believers were, into the church by baptism; and we have no reason to think that Philip did amiss in baptizing him, no, nor in baptizing him quickly.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Peter's owning God's work in baptizing those on whom the Holy Ghost fell.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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One is that which John conferred by baptizing, which is called "a baptism of penance," etc., by reason of its inducing men to do penance, and of its being a kind of protestation by which men avowed their purpose of doing penance.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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So the Church of England marks the forehead with the sign of the cross in baptizing.
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