...which takes place in baptism the Church has no further defined than by the general assertion that it is a death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness. and that every person rightly baptized is made thereby a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor...

...teach the same. Thus in her catechism it is said, that " the inward and spiritual grace" of baptism, is "a death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness." And in the baptismal office, that "baptism doth represent unto us our profession, which is to follow the...

...grace, and a pledge to assure us thereof. Now this inward and spiritual grace is thus described; it is a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness; and, although we are by nature born in sin and the children of wrath, it is by this inward and spiritual...

...his vocabulary, means something more than a mere assent of the mind, or confession of the lips. It is " a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness ;" and, in contending for a radical moral spiritual change, we need no stronger words, no more vivid descriptions,...

...have been taught by our holy mother, the Church of Christ. The spiritual grace bestowed in Baptism is " a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness." And this grace accompanies the ordinance, whenever it is duly administered and rightly received. " Baptism...

...his vocabulary, means something more than a mere assent of the mind, or confession of the lips. It is " a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness ;" and, in contending for a radical moral spiritual change, we need no stronger words, no more vivid descriptions,...

...our Church Catechism to the question respecting Baptism, " What is the inward and spiritual grace ?" is, " a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness ;" and this appears to be in accordance with the language of Scripture upon the same subject, — " Arise,...

...the Prayer-Book teach that the inward and spiritual grace which Baptism is the means of conveying, is a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, and that in it we are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, unless...

...is the true inward Christian, whose praise is not of men, but of God. For the true Christian baptism is a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness, and none are Christians indeed but who are so baptized. Upon thi» account said the Son of God unto Nicodemus,...

...change, which then takes place, the Church has no further defined than by the general assertion, that it is " a death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness ;" and that every person, rightly baptized, is made thereby " a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor...