I indeed baptize you with water to lead you to repentance; but he that cometh after me, is my superiour, whose shoes I am not worthy to carry: he shall baptize you with the effusion of the holy Ghost, in the appearance of fire:

I indeed have baptized you with water, but he shall baptize you with the effusion of the holy Ghost.

and he said to them, this represents the effusion of my blood (the sanction of the new covenant) for mankind.

but the animal man does not receive the effusions of the spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him; neither can he understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.

he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

whence even the first testament was not established without the effusion of blood.

and indeed according to the law almost every thing is purified with blood, without the effusion of which, there is no remission of sins.