The Doctrine of the Church (20): The Sacrament of Baptism

Baptism is a sign of submerging into death and bearing the punishment of sin, or of so submerging into death that the justice of God is fully satisfied. And therefore it is a sign also of the rising again unto a new life. Thus Jesus was baptized indeed. He descended into the depths of Gods wrath, into the deepest darkness of death, and tasted death for all His people. And He rose again, justised by the very sentence of God upon Him, in the glorious resurrection. Of this baptism into His own...