A53715:365
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers
Of the mortification of sin in believers: the 1. Necessity, 2. Nature, and 3. Means of it. With a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto belonging. By John Owen, D.D. a servant of Jesus Christ in the work of the Gospel.
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1668
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.
We have in Baptism an Evidence of our Implantation into Christ; we are baptized into him; But what of him are we baptized into an Interest in? His Death, saith he: If indeed we are baptized into Christ, and beyond Outward Profession, we are baptized into his Death. The Explication […] this, of our being baptized into the Death of Christ, the Apostle gives us, vers. 4, 5. 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; Knowing this, that our Old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. This is (saith he) ⟨p. 176⟩our being baptized into the Death of Christ, namely, our Conformity thereunto. To be dead unto Sin, to have our corruptions mortified, as he was put to death for Sin; so that as he was raised up to Glory, we may be raised up to Grace and Newness of Life.
We have in Baptisme an Evidence of our Implantation into Christ; we are baptized into him; But what of him are we baptized into an Interest in? His Death, saith he: If indeed we are baptized into Christ, and beyond Outward Profession, we are ••ptized into his Death. The Explication 〈…〉 this, of our being baptized into the Death of Christ, the Apostle gives us, vers. 4, 5. Therefore we are buried with him by Baptisme 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; Knowing this, that our Old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. This is (saith he) ⟨p. 176⟩our being baptized into the Death of Christ, namely, our Conformity thereunto. To be dead unto Sin, to have our corruptions mortified, as he was put to death for Sin; so that as he was raised up to Glory, we may be raised up to Grace and Newness of Life.