Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

2. Another thing in Sanctification, is Vivification, or the living a new life to the honour of God. Thus the baptized person, is under the most solemn engagement unto new obedience, to walk in newness of life. As Christ rose out of his Grave, and liveth for ever to the glory of the Father, so baptised persons are under engagement, to rise more and more out of the grave of sin, and to live such a life as that God may have glory from them, Rom. 6.4,5. In Baptism, there is an intimation, that the subjects of it, are professedly and visibly new creatures; and that ⟨p. 107⟩therefore they are bound to live like new creatures, Tit. 3. 5. Hence in the primitive times, baptised persons had the name of Regenerate ones given to them, because they were under obligation not to live to themselves, or to the world, but unto God and unto Jesus Christ. They are bound to live a new and another kind of life, then that which unregenerate sinners are acquainted with. Hence is that expression in the Scripture of baptizing unto Repentance, Mat. 3. 11 because the subjects of that ordinance are bound to repent, h. e. to forsake the ways of sin, and to walk in the contrary ways of holiness.

2. Another thing in Sanctification, is Vivification, or the living a new life to the honour of God. Thus the baptized person, is under the most solemn engagement unto new obedience, to walk in newness of life. As Christ rose out of his Grave, and liveth for ever to the glory of the Father, so baptised persons are under engagement, to rise more and more out of the grave of sin, and to live such a life as that God may have glory from them, Rom. 6.4,5. In Baptisme, there is an intimation, that the subjects of it, are professedly and visibly new creatures; and that ⟨p. 107⟩therefore they are bound to live like new creatures, Tit. 3. 5