Buried with him in baptism, in which also you are risen with him through the faith of the working of God, who has raised him from the dead.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
That we were then buried with Christ in baptism, and also raised again with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised Him from the dead.
Of bestowing even on the unworthy, what He has engaged (to give); and they turn His liberality into slavery. But if it is of necessity that God grants us the symbol of death,