This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... V. LIFE IN CHRIST. LIFE IN CHRIST. 1ITH what life do they come forth from baptism, who have put on Christ? Even with that twofold life of which baptism is the seal and the foreshadowing, -- the crucified life of the first Adam, and the risen life of the second Adam. In a deeper sense than he meant it, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ... V. LIFE IN CHRIST. LIFE IN CHRIST. 1ITH what life do they come forth from baptism, who have put on Christ? Even with that twofold life of which baptism is the seal and the foreshadowing, -- the crucified life of the first Adam, and the risen life of the second Adam. In a deeper sense than he meant it, is that striking utterance of Lacordaire true, --" The Church is born crucified" For not only as born of the Spirit has she been brought into fellowship with the sufferings of Christ; but as born of water she has been stamped with the cross of Christ, the birth-mark of her redemption, to be worn till death. And being "begotten again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead," she has also the new and glorified life of her Lord. The prescribed course of Christian growth and development then is exactly according to that type of doctrine to which we have been committed in baptism. "Ye are dead"1 is the doctrinal statement of the believer's status before the law. "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth" is the practical inference to be worked out in holy living. "Ye are risen with Christ"1 is the other side of the same doctrinal statement. "Seek those things which are above" is the corresponding exhortation to practical holiness. And so we see the truth of the axiom of a former chapter, that Christian experience is the making real in ourselves what is already true for us in Christ. Of Jesus we might almost say that He never wholly ceases to be anything that He has once been; there is such an unchanging permanency and vitality in every event of his redemption. Of the believer who is in Him. this is certainly true. He is one that not only has died with Christ, but one who in that very fact is bound to...
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