EXPOSITION OF SCRIPTURE ON BAPTISM.
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| Socinians. Gal. iii. 27—(continued). | |
| "through faith in Christ Jesus." "Herein faith is expressly treated of, whereby we are made sons of God, which is obtained not by the Baptism of water, but of the Spirit, and without which there may be Baptism of water, but of the Spirit there cannot be. Whereas then there is immediately subjoined, 'For whoever,' &c.; which words are the ground of the preceding, according to the force of the particle 'for,' [see on the contrary Chrysostome above, p. 30.] "not water Baptism, but some spiritual Baptism seems to be the subject." | |
| Rom. vi. 3. | |
| Zuingli-Calvinists. | Socinians. |
| Zuingli ad loc.—"In the outward sign of Baptism ye may understand how ill sins become you. The dipping of your body into the water was a sign, that you ought to be engraffed into Christ and His death; that as He died and was buried, so you also should be dead to the flesh, and your old man, i.e. yourselves."
Peter Martyr, ad loc,—"Being baptized into Christ, means nothing else than to be initiated, under His command, direction, auspices. And by this figure of speech it is signified that we pass into Christ, so as to be united with Him most closely in faith, hope, and charity. As soldiers to a commander, so we are bound to Christ in Baptism, and swear that we never after will fall away to the devil." |
Crell. Opp. Exeg. t. i, p. 342. "Christians profess, by the rite of Baptism, that they wish to become as dead." Id. t. ii. p, 122, 123.—"The Baptism of Christ not only represents repentance and remission of sins, i.e. is received as a sign of repentance to be performed, and remission of sins to be obtained; but moreover as a sign that Christ is to be put on; and with Him we must die to sin, and rise again to newness of life."—Slichtingius, ad loc. Opp. t. i. p. 210. "We bound ourselves by Baptism, yea, we expressed, as it were, by a sort of figure and similitude, that we would become partakers of Christ's death, or die with Christ. But what other death to which all we, who are Christians bound ourselves by Baptism, can be meant, than to die to sin? This alone engraffs all Christians into Christ by the likeness of death." |
| Tit. iii. 5. | |
| Piscator in anal. c. 3. Tit. "God saves us by regeneration | Socinus Elenchi Sophistici. Fratr. Pol. t. 1. p. 644, "People, |
