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Zuingli-Calvinists.
"seal." So Whitaker de Sacr. ib. p. 103. Ames, adv. Bell, ib. p. 112. Danæus, ib. "Not to obtain, but to attest, a real remission of sins."
Acts viii. 37.
Zuingli-Calvinists. Whitaker de Sacram, q. 4. cap. 2. ad Bellar. rat 1. ap. Gat. p. 104. "The righteous are also holy ['and consequently regenerate,' Whit.] before they are admitted to the Sacraments; for in adults holiness is previously required; for faith is required, and holiness always follows faith, for faith is holy, and makes those who have it holy." See others above, pp. 118, 120, 122.	Socinians. F. Socinus de Bapt. Aquæ, c. 5. Opp. t. 1. p. 720. "Philip saith to the Eunuch, who wished to be baptized with water, (in Jesus Christ's name,) 'if thou believest with all thy heart, thou mayest.' He then, who would ** be rightly baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, must believe with all his heart in Christ. Therefore that Baptism confers nothing which is necessary to salvation, but only attests, that he who is baptized hath those things which are necessary."
Acts xxii. 16.
Chamier, t. iv. 1. 2. c. 3. § 15. ap. Gat. p. 104.—"It is not necessary that remission of sins should here be attributed to Baptism; for there are three things, 'Arise, be baptized, wash away thy sins.' Nor is remission, or the power of remitting, necessarily attributed to Baptism, more than Baptism, or the power of baptizing, to the 'arising.' But if it be absurd to attribute that power to the 'arising,' it certainly is not necessary to attribute it to Baptism." Piscator, ad loc.—"He does not mean, to obtain remission of sins by this mean or instrument, because faith alone is the mean or instrument whereby we lay hold on remission of sins in the	Wolzogen, ad loc.—"It is not hence to be inferred, that sins are properly washed away by the very water of Baptism. For sins are the defilements of the soul, not of the body; therefore they cannot be effaced by material water, which only washes the body. But by the Baptism of water, as an outward sign, a declaration is made of what ought to take place within. Not unfrequently words which signify purifying are used for the declaration and attestation of purifying. This washing away and effacing of sins, with their remission by God, is not to be attributed to Baptism only, but to true faith, and profession of the name of Christ, whereof Baptism is an adjunct. And