There is no immersion there.

Now, is it allowable to depart from the original mode?
This could not be done in the first initiating ordinance of the church,--circumcision.

A departure from the prescribed rule would have vitiated the ordinance.

But, does not Christianity differ essentially from the former dispensation in this very particular, that it does not make the mode of doing a thing, essential?
Yet, it may be said, Human ordinances are all strictly binding in the very forms prescribed.

For example: "Hold up your right hand," says the clerk, or judge, to a witness; "you solemnly swear--." Let the witness, instead of holding up his right hand, if he has one, and can move it, capriciously say, "I prefer to hold up the left, or to hold up both.