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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
A. The benefits are twofold; some external, called the fatness of the Olive-tree, (i. e.) Ordinances and visible Membership, Rom. 11.17. —And thou being a wild olive-tree, were grafted in amongst them, and with them, partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree. And some spiritual and saving, 1 Pet. 3.21. The like figure whereunto, even baptism, doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
A. The benefits are twofold; some external, called the fatness of the Olive-tree, (i. e.) Ordinances and visible Membership, Rom. 11.17. —And thou being a wild olive-tree, were grafted in amongst them, and with them, partakest of the root and fatness of the olive-tree. And some spiritual and saving, 1 Pet. 3.21. The like figure whereunto, even baptism, doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God) by the resurrection of Iesus Christ.
Q. 11. What engagements are said on the Baptized?
A. They are engaged to be the Lords people and walk suitable to that engagement, Rom. 6.4. 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, even so we also should walk in newness of life.