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To be baptized into Christ, is by baptism to take the name of Christ upon us, to be incorporated, ingrafted, and implanted into the church of Christ, being made visible members of his mystical body by baptism. To be baptized into Christ's death, imports, our being conformed to him in the likeness of his death; our being engaged to die unto sin; as Christ died for sin.
Learn hence, That the death of Christ was a lively representation of the death of sin; and believers are to imitate his death, in their dying daily unto sin.
Did Christ die for us a painful, shameful, and accursed death? such a death must sin die in us. Was his death for sin free and voluntary?
so must we die to sin.
Was his death an universal crucifixion, did no life, sense, or motion remain with him?
thus must we imitate the likeness of his death, by an universal mortification of every known sin, which occasioned his dying.
In a word, did Christ die and rise again, never to die more?
so must we die unto sin, and walk in newness of life.
How shall we that are dead unto sin, live any longer therein?
Thus it appears the indispensible duty of all Christians, to transcribe the copy of Christ's death in their hearts and lives.