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2 The question is what was that act described by the word baptism which X commanded and which His apostles practiced. 2 How may we know what this act was? I By ascertaining the meaning of the word. "Has it a plain, definite and certain meaning or is it vague, obscure and doubtful. The presumption is in favor of its having a precise and easily ascertained meaning It is exceedingly improbable to say the least that in instituting an ordinance of perpetual and universal obligation, our Lord should select to denote that ordinance a word the meaning of which was either obscure or indefinite. In a positive institution of this kind it is not enough that we observe the Spirit of the injunction. (Dif bet moral + unclear precepts) words differ, some only express results as to Cleanse, to purify, others express acts of so general a Char, that they may be performed in several dif. ways, as to go to move, still others, specific, as to walk, rem? dip?, unclear. Such a word X used.