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Gal. iii. 27—(continued).
Zuingli-Calvinists.	Socinians.
Fulke, Rhenish Testament.—"The Apostle reasoneth from the signe to the things signified, to prove that by faith in Christ we are the children of God, because Baptism, representing our putting on of Christ as a garment, is a seal of justification by faith, as circumcision was to Abraham—no cause, but a testimony of his justification. As also Cornehus, and they that were with him, had their hearts purified by faith, and received the Holy Ghost. Whereby God testified that Baptisme giveth not grace, of the work wrought, but is a seal of grace," &c. Piscator ad loc—"Baptism is a divine testimony to believers, that they have put on Christ, or are engraffed into Christ. But they err who infer hence, that all who are baptized put on Christ." See also P. Martyr on Cornelius above, p. 138, Note.	"learn from the Apostle's exhortation, Rom. xiii. 14. The Apostle, in that in this place he joins this 'putting on of Christ' with Baptism, or rather with the baptized, does not mean that Christ is properly put on through Baptism itself, but that Baptism is an argument, that they who received it have put on Christ; which itself, lastly, is to be favourably interpreted, not that it is always so, but that it ought to be, and is therefore by the charity [the 'ex judicio charitatis' of the Reformed school] which suspecteth no evil, to be presumed to take place also, unless any thing prevent." Opp. Exeg. t. i. p 44, and ad loc. "The Galatians, by the means of the faith and religion which they had embraced from his teaching, were altogether united and engraffed into Christ. By Baptism, they attested that they put on Christ, i.e. thoroughly embraced His religion and manner of life, were conformed to Him, and so engraffed and united with Him. For in fact, Christ is put on out of Baptism, chiefly by the very manner of life; whence Paul exhorts the Romans, who had long ago been baptized, to put on the Lord Jesus Christ; but by a certain shadowing out and profession, it takes place in Baptism." So also Slichtingius, ad Rom. xiii. 14. F. Socinus, although on the whole he inclines to the interpretation, "that the Galatians, when they were baptized into Christ, of necessity professed that they had put on Christ, and wished to put Him on;" yet he is well content with that other, which would deny any reference to water-baptism, in that it had been said before, "for ye are all sons of God