12.  For thou goest down into the water, bearing thy sins, but the invocation of grace Compare III. 3, and see Index, “Baptism.”, having sealed thy soul, suffereth thee not afterwards to be swallowed up by the terrible dragon.  Having gone down dead in sins, thou comest up quickened in righteousness.  For if thou hast been united with the likeness of the Saviour’s death Rom. vi. 5., thou shalt also be deemed worthy of His Resurrection.  For as Jesus took upon Him the sins of the world, and died, that by putting sin to death He might rise again in righteousness; so thou by going down into the water, and being in a manner buried in the waters, as He was in the rock, art raised again walking in newness of life Rom. vi. 4.  Instead of “might rise again” (Roe, Casaub. Mon.), the older Editions have “might raise thee up,” which is less appropriate in this part of the sentence..