A. The needful but much neglected duty of improving our Baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and when we are present at the administration of it to othersp, by serious and thankful consideration of the nature of it, & of the ends for which Christ instituted it, the privileges and benefits conferred and sealed thereby, and our solemn vow made thereinq, by being humbled for our sinful defilements, our falling short of, and walking contrary to the grace of Baptism and our engagementsr, by growing up to assurance of pardon of sin, and of all other blessings sealed to us in that Sacraments, by drawing strength from the death and resurrection of ⟨p. 151⟩Christ into whom we are baptized, for the mortifying of sin, and quickening of gracet, and by endeavouring to live by faithu, to have our conversation in holiness and righteousnessw, as those that have therein given up there name to Christx, and to walk in brotherly love, as being baptized by the same spirit into one bodyy.
A. The needful but much neglected duty of improving our Baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long, especially in the time of temptation, and when we are present at the administration of it to othersp, by serious and thankful con•ideration of the nature of it, & of the ends for which Christ instituted it, the priviledges and benefits conferred and sealed thereby, and our solemn vow made thereinq, by being humbled for our sinful defilements, our falling short of, and walking contrary to the grace of Baptism and our ingagementsr, by growing up to assurance of pardon of sin, and of all other blessings sealed to us in that Sacraments, by drawing strength from the death and resurrection of ⟨p. 151⟩Christ into whom we are baptized, for the mortifying of sin, and quickning of gracet, and by endeavouring to live by faithu, to have our conversation in holiness and righteousnessw, as those that have therein given up there name to Christx, and to walk in brotherly love, as being baptized by the same spirit into one bodyy.
- pCol. 2.11.12. Rom. 6.4, 6, 11.
- qRom. 6.3, 4, 5.
- r1 Cor. 1.11 12, 13. Rom. 6.2, 3.
- sRom. 4.11.•.
- tRom. 6.3, 4▪ 5.
- uGal. 3.26.27.
- wRom. 6.22.
- xAct. 2.38
- y1 Cor. 12.13, 25, 26, 27.
