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1 Cor. xii. 13—(continued).
	"been, or also that it may be rightly received, i.e. of spiritual gifts, as every one, reading the whole Chapter, accurately may see."
1 Pet. iii. 21.
Zuingli-Calvinists.	Socinians.
Vorst Anti-Bellarm. ad t. iii. contr. 1. thes. 6. § 4. "The testimonies quoted, as to Baptism, are in truth altogether foreign (sc. Joh. iii. Eph. v. Tit. iii. and 1 Pet. iii.) where the power of cleansing sins is not attributed to the outward water of Baptism, but to the word of life, apprehended through faith, and to the internal renovation of the Holy Spirit." Zuingli in Hist. domin. ascens. t. iii. P. 2. p. 404. "Ye have hitherto been baptized with the Baptism of John, but now ye shall be baptized with another Baptism, i.e. with the Holy Spirit." (The Baptism of John and that of the Christian Church he held to be the same). Ad Fridol. Lindov. t. i. f. 204. "Baptism does not save us, as far as it washes the surface and filth of the body, but as far as our conscience answers itself well. De vera et falsa relig. t. ii. f. 178. "And that we may understand not the water-baptism, but an internal change of the old man by repentance, he adds, this does not take place thereby that the filth of the body is washed away, (for this is all which water can do,) but when the conscience, examining itself, answers itself satisfactorily as toitsstate with God."	Crell. Opp. Exeg. t. iii. p. 329. "The Apostle teaches, 1st, what Baptism is not; 2dly, what it is. 1. Not the putting aside the filth of the flesh. The matter is plain: wherefore they are the more to be blamed, who, when they hear Baptism spoken of up and down in Holy Scripture, and that as a thing necessary to salvation, although there be no indication of an outward water-baptism which washeth away the filth of the flesh, forthwith understood this? Why not rather the Holy Spirit, or spiritual Baptism which Peter explains to us, and asserts that by the grace of God it bringeth salvation? Or why not rather the Baptism of the Spirit, since this is the peculiar Baptism of Christ, and is opposed to the water-baptism wherewith John was wont to initiate his disciples?" Slichtingius ad loc. Opp. t. ii. p. 329. "Baptism so far saves us, not as it contains any laying aside of the filth of the flesh, but as it contains that, whereof the outward washing of the flesh is a sign and sacrament, namely, the interrogatory of a good conscience towards God." Socinus de Bapt. aquæ, c. 12. "What else can 'Baptism saves