Baptism in water clearly was universal in the early Christian church. It was accepted and practiced always and everywhere as the self-evident beginning and foundation of the Christian life. By it people were admitted into the visible church. In its form it was a simple action. A person went into or under the water in the name of Jesus (Acts 19:5) and/or the name of the Trinity (Matt. 28:19). Geoffrey W. Bromiley, an Anglican, has correctly noted that “immersion was fairly certainly the