No less truly is it also necessary
that humanity itself of Christ truly (yet spiritual, as we will soon see, by the
acceptance through the instrument of faith) he be made ours, so that we may
obtain all those benefits and eternal life in Him. In this way also, when
baptism, another sacrament of the church, is discussed, we are not simply said
to have been baptized into His death, burial, and resurrection (that is, so
that from it we obtain fruit of remission and sins and of our renewal). Rather,
we are expressly said to have been baptized into Him (Rom. 6:3) and to put Him
on (Gal. 3:27). (Theodore Beza, “A Defense of Justification through the
Righteousness of Christ Alone, Freely Imputed, Obtained by Living Faith”
(1592), in Justification by Faith Alone: Selected Writings from Theodore
Beza (1519-1605), Amandus Polanus (1561-1610), and Francis Turretin (1623-1687)
[trans. Casey Carmichael; Classic Reformed Theology 6; Grand Rapids, Mich.: Reformation
Heritage Press, 2023], 74)
