Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	sin_n	suffer_v	5,268	5	6.2457	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57682	Infant-Baptism; or, Infant-sprinkling (as the Anabaptists ironically term it,) asserted and maintained by the scriptures, and authorities of the primitive fathers. Together with a reply to a pretended answer. To which has been added, a sermon preached on occasion of the author's baptizing an adult person. With some enlargements. By J. R. rector of Lezant in Cornwal.; Infant-Baptism.	J. R. (James Rossington), b. 1642 or 3.	1700 (1700)	Wing R1993; ESTC R218405	76,431	137

Christ And the rising of the Body up out of the Water of his Resurrection This is not so pointed out by sprinkling Now for Answer hereto to avoid Repetition see the Reply Page the 80. And grant that we do not in our way of administring at least so exactly and fully represent Christ's Burial and Resurrection of which as I have shewn there is no absolute necessity that it should be so done in the Ceremony it will concern us nevertheless to consider how we may be said to be buried and risen with Christ in a spiritual figurative Sense and to see that the fruits and consequence of our Baptism do answer as his Death so his Burial which speaks not only our dying unto Sin but our continuing and persevering in this state of Mortification and likewise his Resurrection in our symbolizing therewith in rising to newness of Life First As to our Burial with Christ our Saviour's lying three Days in the Grave puts it beyond all doubt that he was in the state of the Dead so true believers are buried with him But how can that be you 'l say that we who are true believers suppose being yet living can be buried with him we never were laid in the Grave Surely not in our Lords Which was scituate on Mount Calvary nigh to Jerusalem places very distant from our abode But we must know that 't is not a natural but a Mystical Grave or Sepulchre that the Apostle refers to and so we may be said in a figurative Sense to be buried with Christ and that in a double Respect First In regard of our justification for the remission of Sins Secondly With respect to our sanctification and the mortification of the old Man Concerning the first 't is certain as he was not crucified and put to Death so neither was he buried which is nothing but the consequent of Death but for us and having under-gone Death and descended to the dismal state of the Grave for our Salvation 't is evident that when he was buried we were buried in him and with him since 't was properly for us that he descended into the Grave in that his burial hath discharged this part of our Punishment and consequently hath changed the nature of our Graves that instead of being Prisons and Places of Execution our Graves are now so many Beds and Dormitories wherein our Bodies do repose until the Resurrection But 't is not in this sense that the Apostle saith here we are buried with Christ but he speaks rather of the first Part of our Sanctification the Mortification of the old Man in us and its Burial that is the bringing of it to nought forasmuch as by Christ's Death and Burial our old Man the body of Sin hath been destroyed and suffered a Death and Burial like to Christ's that as his Flesh after it was deprived of Life was laid in the Grave in like manner the old Man of true Believers having been slain is interred 'T is in him and with him that we have been buried in this sort If he had not suffered the one and the other for our Salvation had not I say his Death and Holy Sepulchre derived unto us an Image and a Copy of his Burial destroying and burying by the vertue and merits thereof our old Man and bringing on him a Mystical Death and Burial Sin would still live and reign in us In like manner the latter Clause of my Text must be so understood viz. That Christ by vertue of his Resurrection doth work and produce one in us which has Resemblance and Analogy with his own viz. A Resurrection to a new Spiritual and Evangelical Life instead of that vile and wretched Life which we had by Nature without which we had lain still dead and in bondage to Sin For that which formeth in us the new Man and gives us the courage to renounce the World that we may live above the World is the perswasion of the love of God and the pardon of our Sins together with the hope of a blissful glorious Immortality of which he gives us assurance from his having taken possession of the same for himself and us These are the blessed effects and fruits issuing as from the Death so from the Burial and Resurrection of Christ which are sealed to us in the Ordinance of Baptism Indeed all the means and ordinances which God hath appointed and enjoyn'd us to make use of in Religion have no other tendency but to communicate Jesus Christ to us as dead buried and risen again for us to the destroying of the old Man and reviving the new nor do they ever fail to produce these effects in any of those that receive them as they ought and are not wanting in their Duty But the Apostle speaks here only of Baptism the first and proper Sacrament or means of Regeneration So treating of the same Subject elsewhere * Rom. 6.3 where he expresseth himself in like manner which should confute their folly who withstood one of the old Sacraments of Moses its giving place to this of Christ's institution so productive of this double effect and which is also represented as our Apostle here intimates and as I have already observed in the external Action and manner of Administration But suppose sprinkling does not carry so express a Figure of Christ's Burial and Resurrection as that of immersion or dipping nevertheless the vertue of Holy Baptism is still the same If therefore we meet with any baptized Persons as there are but too many such in whom the old Man is so far from being buried that he lives and reigns with absolute Power and the new Man hath neither Life nor Action at all It may not be imputed to Christ who always accompanies his Sacraments with his saving vertue but unto their own unbelief who do wretchedly repel the operation of the Grace God and obstruct the effects which he would have assuredly produced in them if their unworthiness had not frustrated his efficacy towards them And therefore 't is added Through the faith of the operation of God an evident Token that the Sacrament doth mortifie Sin in us and raise us to Holiness according to the Faith it meets with in us Now how happy should we be if we had these things Written and Engraven in deep Letters on our Hearts if our actions did justifie our Profession that we are buried and risen again with Christ in Baptism by the faith of the operation of God but alas it must be confest to our shame there appears in the lives of most of us a very imperfect Idea of the Burial and least of all of the Resurrection of Christ the Flesh lives and exerciseth great Tyranny in us The new Man that breaths nothing but Heaven and loves nothing but Holiness hath no place in us 't is so far from reigning there that he acts no more than a dead Body fast shut up in the Grave There is no need to run to Palestine nor