# What Testimony The Holy Apostles Have Given In Their Epistles, Concerning Baptism.

1st century (source section) · Historical source

Source: Martyrs’ Mirror. Original heading: WHAT TESTIMONY THE HOLY APOSTLES HAVE GIVEN IN THEIR EPISTLES, CONCERNING BAPTISM.

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1. That 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.”80

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.81

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.”

3. 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.

1 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.82 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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