Chapter 42.—The Sacrament
of Baptism Indicates Our Death with Christ to Sin, and Our
Resurrection with Him to Newness of Life.
And this is the meaning of the
great sacrament of baptism which is solemnized among us, that all
who attain to this grace should die to sin, as He is said to have
died to sin, because He died in the flesh, which is the likeness of
sin; and rising from the font regenerate, as He arose alive from
the grave, should begin a new life in the Spirit, whatever may be
the age of the body?