be
Christians, as Christ rose from the dead, not from the water.

_Mr. K._ How is it with infants? Are they dead and buried to sin when
they are baptized? If being buried, in this passage, means being dead
and buried to sin, then infants are regenerated by baptism.

Mr. K. gave his wife a pleased look, as though he had placed me in a
dilemma.

"Mrs. Kelly," said I, "how do you suppose that nursing children ate the
first passover?"

"I suppose that they ate it through the faith of their parents," said
Mrs. K., looking narrowly into the stitches of her crochet-work, to
control a smile.

"That passover, however," said I, "was the means of saving those
children, who, many of them, were the first-born in their respective
families. Yet they were saved by the passover through the faith of their
parents. Do not understand me as urging the comparison to an extreme; I
only say that there we have an example of parents acting for the child
in a matter of faith. The infant child was incapable of believing, and
even where the first-born was grown up, the parent acted for him in the
ordinance, by sprinkling the door with blood. I do not prove infant
baptism by this, but I use it to show that parents may use an ordinance
for their infants. Mr. K. asks if baptized infants are buried with
Christ in baptism into death,--that is, die unto sin and rise to newness
of life. The parents profess by the baptism that they will use means to
effect this in their children, through the grace of the Holy Spirit. I
should like to ask Mr. Kelly if he believes that every person who is
immersed, is buried into death, spiritually, with Christ, or is actually
dead to sin forever; or, whether it is only a profession of one's hope
and intention. For we have all known some, who had been buried in water,
that did not prove to have died unto sin."

_Mr. K._ Of course it is a symbol; and all we insist on is, that Paul
must have had immersion in mind, as the form of baptism, when he spoke
of being buried by baptism.

_Mr. M._ When Paul says, "I am crucified with Christ," do you suppose
that the idea of a cross was in his mind? Did he intimate that
sanctification is effected by a piece of wood, with a transverse beam,
used as a gibbet? Or did he simply mean, I am dead to the world, and the
world is dead to me, yea, and put to death (not merely dying in a
natural way), through the power of the Saviour's sufferings and death on
my behalf? The burial of Chris