justification[1]; they assert that those who are truly baptized
- ↑ Zuingli (de Pec. orig. 0pp. t. ii. f. 122.) "Since Paul says, our fathers were baptized to Moses in the cloud and the sea, it is manifest that Baptism is of no more avail to our justification, than the cloud and the sea to their's." Peter Martyr, ad 1 Reg. f. 73. "Assuredly, adults must believe before they are baptized; and if they believe, they are already justified; and when they became members of Christ (i.e., by justification before Baptism), doubtless the devil departed from them;" and f. 74. v. "We deny that persons are translated from the kingdom of darkness to that of light, by receiving Baptism, since infants obtain this by predestination and the promise of God, and by the right of an inherited covenant." Loci 4. 8. 3. "In mind and spirit, as soon as we are justified, we are, in very deed, engrafted into Christ and the Church; but since that is not clear to men, it
ginal corruption, but not imputed to them, before Baptism." Add. 4. 8. 14, and 15. "The opponents attribute to the Sacraments more than they ought; for they suppose that sin is remitted by the force and efficacy of the action of Baptism, and acknowledge not, that by the Sacraments, the remission is rather sealed, which remission adults obtain by believing, and the little ones of believers, who belong to the election, have grace already through the Holy Spirit." Witsius (L. c. § 32) quotes from the Baptismal Liturgy of the Belgic Church the question addressed to the parents, and to be answered in the affirmative: "Although our children are conceived and born in sin, and so are obnoxious to eternal condemnation, do you not acknowledge them to he sanctified (sanctificati) in Christ, and that, therefore, as being members of His Church, they are to be baptized (baptizandos.") [In capitals ap. Wits.] Calvin (Institt. 4. 16. 22.), "Little ones have remission of sins given to them: therefore, they are not to be deprived of the sign of it" (against the Anabaptists.) Whitaker (de Sacram. q. 6. c. 4. p. 193. ap. Gatak. p. 123.) "Nor is original sin remitted in Baptism in any other way than in the Eucharist. For in each Sacrament, remission of sins is sealed to us." Gataker (l.c. p. 94.) "That any promise of remitting original sin is annexed to Baptism, I nowhere read; but, with me, the saying holds here, 'What I read not, I believe not.'" Hooper's Confession of Faith, § 18. "As for those that say Circumcision and Baptism be like, and yet attribute the remission of original sin to Baptism, which was never given to Circumcision, they not only destroy the similitude and equality which should be between them, but also take from Christ remission of sin, and translate it unto the water and element of Baptism." T. C. confutation of Rhemish Test. "This holiness of childrem is, not to be sinners by nature (the Apostle telleth you. Gal. ii. 15.), as those which are born of the heathen; forasmuch as their sinnes, who are in the covenant, are, by Christ, not reckoned unto them."
