Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

The same Call. in loc. to show that Remission of sin goeth before baptism, addeth Caeterùm longa expositione non indiget, quòd baptizari jubet in remissionem •eccatorum: Tametsi enim semel homines sibi reconciliav•t Deus in Christo, non imputando illis peccata, 2 Cor. 5 19. & nunc hujus reconciliationis fidē cordibus nostris per spiritū suum imprimit; quia tamen Baptismus sigillū est, quo hoc benefic•ū nobis confirmat, adeoque arrka & pignus adoptionis nost•ae, meritò dari nobis in remissionem peccatorum dicitur. Nam quia fide percipimus Christi dona, fidei autem confirmandae & augendae Baptismus adminiculum est, illi tanqua inferiori medio remissio pecc•t••ū, quae fidei est effectus, annectitur.] I hope I need not stand to show what Calvin here supposeth the use of Christs Baptism to be or what faith it presupposeth. And that you may see what he takes to enter ⟨p. 82⟩the very Definition of Baptism he addeth, [Porrò non est sumenda ex hoc loco Definitio Baptismi, quia ejus partem duntaxat Petrus attingit. Per Baptismum (ut Paulus docet) crucifigitur vetus homo noster, ut in vitae novitatem resurgamus, Rom 6.4, 8. Item induimus Christum ipsum, Gal. 3.27. 1 Cor. 12. & passim docet Scriptura esse Poenitentiae quoque symbolum.] Indeed Calvin doth often fall upon the Papists, that make baptism to have no force against any sin but those before Baptism: But 1. He makes actual Baptism ever to be first for washing away our past & present sin & not then to pardon future sin, but to put the person into an estate wherein he hath a remedy for future sin, at hand, and certain: 2. And he intendeth, that Baptism (as reviewed by faith) afterward may be useful to confirm our Belief of Forgiveness of renewed sin: which made Bellarmine fall upon him and other Protestants, as holding that the very remembrance of Baptism is effectual for pardon of sin.