Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
From the analogy and agreement between both, namely, circumcision and baptism; which the Apostle hints in this 2. of Colos. First the Apostle intimates that as putting off the body of sin (which is a phrase to signify natural death, 2 Cor. 5. and so is here an allusion to signify spiritual death to sin) is the signification of circumcision. Colos. 2.11. So spiritual burying (which argues death) is the signification of baptism.
Secondly, that as neither of these are assured to any but as having Christ sealed to them; so as circumcision sealed an implantation into the death of Christ, that he put off the body naturally in the grave; so the circumcised put off the body of sin spiritually; v. 11. Even so baptism signifies and seals our implantation into the burial of Christ, v. 12. as is more fully expressed, Rom. 6.3, 4, 5.
For the reference, see Nathaniel Homes on circumcision and baptism as spiritual signs.
Secondly, that as neither of these are assured to any but as having Christ sealed to them; so as circumcision sealed an implantation into the death of Christ, that he put off the body naturally in the grave; so the circumcised put off the body of sin spiritually; v. 11. Even so baptism signifies and seals our implantation into the burial of Christ, v. 12. as is more fully expressed, Rom. 6.3, 4, 5.
For the reference, see Nathaniel Homes on circumcision and baptism as spiritual signs.