St. John complained to Him of a certain man that cast out devils in His name, justified him therein, saying (Luke 9:50), “Forbid him not, for he that is not against us, is on our part.”

Again, our Saviour resembled Moses in the institution of “sacraments,” both of “admission” into the kingdom of God, and of “commemoration” of his deliverance of His elect from their miserable condition. As the children of Israel had for sacrament of their reception into the kingdom of God, before the time of Moses, the rite of “circumcision,” which rite having been omitted in the wilderness, was again restored as soon as they came into the Land of Promise; so also the Jews, before the coming of our Saviour, had a rite of “baptizing,” that is, of washing with water all those that being Gentiles embraced the God of Israel. This rite St.