EXPOSITION OF SCRIPTURE ON BAPTISM.
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| 1 Cor. xii. 13. | |
| Zuingli-Calvinists. | Socinians. |
| P. Martyr in 1 Reg. 8. "This is not to be explained as if we first pass into the body of Christ by outward Baptism, since we were of the body of Christ before, and were outwardly baptized, that this might be attested and sealed, as the token given to a soldier does not enroll, but is given to him when enrolled."
Zuingli de Bapt. f. 62. "Those Baptisms (water, the Spirit, outward teaching, the whole Gospel) do not always come together, nor is there any reason that they should." Zuingli Hist. Dom. Ascens. p. 404. "The Baptism then of the Spirit, which is faith, follows that of water." |
Socinus de Bapt. aquæ, c. 8,—"He sets forth the Baptism of the Spirit, which is wont to be opposed to the Baptism of water; so far from our being obliged, or justified in understanding a water-baptism, when we find that expression."—"And if any one would think with himself, and abstract himself awhile from inveterate opinions, he will see and confess that Christians are united into one body by the Baptism, not of water, but of the Holy Spirit. For, since water-baptism is an outward thing and visible to all, it cannot be said to join together and form the true body of Christians, (whereto the argument of the opponents must needs relate,) i.e. the true Church, which is not seen with bodily eyes; but the Baptism of the Spirit, which is an interior thing, and can only be seen in its effects, can rightly join together and constitute the Church of Christ, which is in like way invisible. For neither does the Baptism of the Spirit always accompany the Baptism of water. But who will deny that he is indeed a Christian, who shall have been washed by the Holy Spirit, although (as we have read of and must believe to happen daily) he shall not have been dipped in the water-baptism which the Apostles used? Some even of those, who thought that Paul in this place spoke of water-baptism, have seen that it is not through water-baptism that Christians are united into one body: so great is the power of truth: and treating of these words of Paul, have said that they are not to be taken as if we passed into Christ's body by Baptism, for we first pass over, and then are signed by Baptism to testify this."
"He (Castalio) saw, I suppose, two things; 1st, that no other Spirit is here meant than that which, for the most part, does not precede, but follows water-baptism, and through which Baptism is not received, but is declared either to have |
