Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

So Col. 2.11, 12. which I shall not stay to recite, because it is to the same purpose and before cited.

The third Title mentioned in the Argument, is this: All that are Baptized have Professedly put on Christ: therefore they have professed saving Faith. The Antecedent is expressed, Gal. 3.27. [For as many as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.] The Consequence is proved, in that, to put on Christ heartily, is, to be made true partakers of him, and living members of him: therefore to Profess this is inseparable from the Profession of saving Faith; yea, by that faith is he truly put on. Putting on Christ is the same with [Putting on the New man, which after God is created in Righteousness and true holiness, being renewed in the spirit of our minds Ephes. 4.20, 21, 22, 23, 24. Col. 3.10. It is putting on the New man which is renewed in knowledge according to the Image of him that created him.] So that this is no common work, if any be proper to the saved. And putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, is put for the state of Sanctity, ⟨p. 113⟩in opposition to a fleshly Life, Rom. 13.13, 14. saith Calvin on this Text [Induere Christum hic significat virtute Spiritus ejus undique nos muniri, qua idonei ad omnes Sanctitatis partes reddamur: sic enim instauratur in nobis imago Dei quae unicum est animae ornamentum. Respicit enim Paulus ad vocationis nostrae sinem, quia Deus nos adoptans, in corpus unigeniti silii sui inserit, & quidem hac lege, ut nos abdicantes prior vita, siamus in ipso novi homines. Quare etiam alibi fideles dicit Christum in•uere in baptismum,