A TREATISE ON RE-BAPTISM. 409 the name of Jesus Christ."1 Even as Peteralsosubsequently most abundantlytaught us about the same Gentiles,saying: " And He put no differencebetween us and them, theirhearts being purifiedby faith."2 And therewillbe no doubt that men may be baptizedwith the Holy Ghost withoutwater,as thou observestthat these were baptizedbefore they were baptizedwith water,that the announcements of both John and of our Lord Himself were satisfied; forasmuch as they receivedthe grace of the promise both without the imposi tion of the apostle'shands and withoutthe laver,which they attainedafterwards. And theirheartsbeing purified,God bestowed upon them atthe same time,in virtueof theirfaith, remissionof sins; so that the subsequentbaptism conferred upon them thisbenefitalone,thatthey receivedalsothe in vocationof the name of Jesus Christ,thatnothing might ap pear tobe wanting to the integrityof theirserviceand faith. 6. And thisalso,looking at it from the oppositeside of thisdiscussion,those disciplesof our Lord themselves attained,upon whom, being previouslybaptized,the Holy Spirit at length came down on the day of Pentecost, descending from heaven indeed by the willof God, not of His own accord,but effusedfor thisvery office,and more over upon each one of them ; although these were already righteous,and, as we have said,had been baptizedby the Lord's baptism even as the apostlesthemselves,who never thelessare found on the nighton which He was apprehended to have alldesertedHim. And even Peter himself,who boasted that he should persevere in his faith,and most obstinatelyresistedthe predictionof the Lord Himself,yet at lastdeniedHim, that by thismeans itmight be shown to ns, thatwhatever sinsthey had contractedin the meantime and in any manner, thesesame sins,by the faithin them subsequently attestedas sincere,were without doubt put away by the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Nor, as I think, was it for any other reason that the apostleshad charged those whom they addressedin the Holy Spirit,that they should be baptizedin the name of ChristJesus,except that 1Actsx.44-48. 3Actsxv.9.