Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 3:11
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11 I indeed Baptize you with water unto Repentance, but he that cometh after me, is mightier then I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear, he shall baptize you with the holy ghost, and with fire.
I am not the Christ, Mar. 1.8. Luk. 3.15.16. Ioh. 1.15.26. I am but the Messenger, and forerunner of Christ sent before him, to Baptize men with the Baptism of Water, in Testimony of their Repentance, but there is one immediately coming after me, who is infinitely to be preferred before me, so much, that I am not worthy to carry his Shoes, or unloose his Shoe-latchet: He shall Baptize men with another kind of Baptism, the Baptisme of the Holy Ghost and Fire. With the Holy Ghost inwardly washing away their Sins with his Blood, and sanctifying their Hearts, the Holy Ghost working in their Hearts like Fire, purging out their Lusts and Corruptions, warming and inflaming their Hearts with the Sense of his Love, and kindling in them all spiritual Habits, or with the Holy Ghost, as in the days of Pentecost, there appearing to them cloven Tongues like as of Fire, as Acts 2.3. thus the term Fire is made Exegetical of the term [the Holy Ghost] Or with the Holy Ghost, and with Fire, changing and renewing the Hearts of those that believe in him, by the Operation of the Holy Ghost, and consuming and destroying others, that will not believe, as with Fire.
Marginal references: Act 1.5. & 1.16. & 19.
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