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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Thus much I have said to prove that all the Baptized are accounted Saints; and therefore Professed a saving Sanctity.
The second Title which I mentioned follows, (of which I shall be more brief.) All the Baptized are accounted to be dead and risen with Christ, even dead to sin, and risen to newness of life; therefore they all profess a saving faith. The proof of this is full in the two Texts already cited, Rom. 6. and Col. 2.11, 12.
Rom. 6.33 &c. [How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of Life. For if we have been planted together into the likeness of his Death, we shall be also in the likeness of his Resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that hence forth we should not serve sin; for he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. — Likewise, reckon ye ⟨p. 112⟩also your selves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom. 6.33 &c. [How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also should walk in newness of Life. For if we have been planted together into the likeness of his Death, we shall be also in the likeness of his Resurrection. Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that hence forth we should not serve sin; for he that is dead is freed from sin. Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. — Likewise, reckon ye