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| Zuingli-Calvinists. | Socinians. |
| "and renovation of the Holy Spirit, as it were by a sort of bath, whereby we are cleansed from the defilement of sin, of which bath, Baptism is a seal." Thes. Theol. vol. i. loc. 25. § 20. "By 'the washing of regeneration' the Apostle does not seem to mean Baptism, but regeneration itself, which he compares with a bath." Sclater in Rom. ii. 15. (ap. Gat. p. 102.) "It is doubtful whether (Tit. iii. 5.) the Sacraments be spoken of, or the Spirit only." Zuingli resp. ad Luther, confess. "That theologians have, and do, greatly err herein, matters not. For they understand not that those sayings of Paul, Tit. iii. Ep. v. 'of the washing of water by the word' and 'the bath of regeneration' are enallages, i.e. interterchanges of functions, whereby there is attributed to the signs, what they merely signify." Gataker, l.c. "It may well be doubted whether the Sacrament of Baptism or the internal washing be here meant." Vorstius anti-Bellarm. ad t. 3. contr. 1. Thes. 1 et 2. ad rat. 2. ex Eph. v. Tit. iii. (ap. Gat. p. 121.) p. 350. "Those of our side answer, that these testimonies (Eph. v. 26. Tit. iii. 5.) are foreign to the purpose, since they declare, metaphorically, the things which are signified in the Sacraments, but do not treat of the Sacraments properly so called." "The Evangelicals (Calvinists) answer, that this | "not observing the ambiguity, have believed that Baptism is meant by the washing of regeneration; and that thereby, if it be received rightly, men are regenerated; whereas, unless I am greatly deceived, Paul, by the 'washing of regeneration,' means that regeneration, whereby we are washed, i.e. cleansed from our sins, and that in two ways; 1st, because he who is regenerated puts off his sins, and is thus freed from the defilements of sin; 2dly, because he who is freed from sins escapes all penalty for past sins.' Crellius, de Satisfact. Christi. Opp. t. 4. p. 167. explains it "a bath of that sort, whereby we become new men, yea, or new creatures in mind, will, and actions, which washing St. Paul ascribes to the Holy Spirit. 1 Cor. vi. 11. For to this same action there concur the death of Christ, the Holy Spirit, the word of the Gospel, which is proximately employed to effect it." And ad loc. "The 'Holy Spirit' implies that, whereby that washing takes place which produced regeneration and renovation. And this is nothing else than the application to ourselves of what the Holy Spirit, putting itself forth in the word of God, dictates to us, and thus the laying aside of the defilements of the mind and will. Hence results a regeneration or renovation, i.e. such a change of |
