Regeneration in the Line of the Covenant

The Scriptures speak of baptism as "the washing of regeneration, and the renewal of the Holy Ghost," as inTitus 3:5. In Romans 6:3, 4, we are told, "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." The figure is obvious. By our first birth we are members of the human...