WHAT TESTIMONY THY HOLY APOSTLES HAVE GIVEN IN THEIR EPISTLES, CONCERNING BAPTISMThat it signifies the burying of sins, and the resurrection into a new life. Rom. 6:3, 4,"Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death. 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."* NOTE.-To the foregoing belongs also the passage, Tit. 3:5, where baptism is called,"the washing of regeneration," and Eph. 5:26,"the washing of water by the word."; 2. That through faith we become children of God, and through baptism put on Christ. ** Gal. 3:26, 27, "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ."; That as the ark with eight souls was preserved in the water, so also believing baptized Christians are preserved or saved in baptism through the answer of a good conscience. I Pet. 3:20, 21, "When once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.*** The like figure whereunto baptism doth also now save us, (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God).";
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