Church Ordinances - Two Kinds of Baptism - Elder T.S. Dalton

Romans 6:3-4, Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

-Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death,- etc., which shows very clearly that Paul had under consideration two baptisms, of spirit and water, and in the 3^rd and 4^th verses Paul clearly shows that the baptism of the Holy Spirit precedes water baptism, and is preparatory to it, hence he says, -Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death.  Therefore we are buried with him, (not into him) by baptism into death,- etc., which shows very clearly to every unprejudiced mind that one of these baptisms is in the past tense, and the other in the present tense; one of them is baptism into Christ and the other a burial with Christ.-  (Zion-s Advocate  May 1893).