An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…

Baptism signifies our profession of Conformity to Christ; very well:¹ But first of all it signifies our Union to him, without which there can be no participation of his Death and Resurrection, nor conformity thereunto. In that place, Gal. 3. putting on of Christ imports an Union with him; and in that Rom, 6. after that discourse of Conformity to Christ's Death and Resurrection, the Apostle immediately raises up himself to the Fountain of that Conformity, and tells us, that we are [Greek or Hebrew], implanted in the likeness of his death and resurrection, ver. 5. Aptissimâ translation arctissimam illam nostri cum ipsa Christi substantiâ conjunctionem, & vivificam illam virtutem inde in nos manantem expressit, saith Beza on the place. The Apostle by that Metaphor of a Plant, expresses our intimate Conjunction with the very Substance of Christ, and the quickening virtue flowing from thence unto us, to assimilate us to his Death and Resurrection.

Baptism signifies our profession of Conformity to Christ; very well:¹ But first of all it signifies our Union to him, without which there can be no participation of his Death and Resurrection, nor conformity thereunto. In that place, Gal. 3. putting on of Christ imports an Union with him; and in that Rom, 6. after that discourse of Conformity to Christ's Death and Resurrection, the Apostle immediately raises up himself to the Fountain of that Conformity, and tells us, that we are 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, implanted in the likeness of his death and resurrection, ver. 5. Aptissimâ translatione arctissimam illam nostri cum ipsa Christi substantiâ conjunctionem, & vivificam illam virtutem inde in nos manantem expressit, saith Beza on the place. The Apostle by that Metaphor of a Plant, expresses our intimate Conjunction with the very Substance of Christ, and the quickning virtue flowing from thence unto us, to assimilate us to his Death and Resurrection.

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