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

Calvin in Act. 2.38. [Tametsi in contextu verborum b•ptismus remissionem peccatorum hìc praece•it, ordine tamen sequitur; quia nihil aliud est quam bonorum quae per Christum consequimur obsignatio &c.] See the rest there before cited.

See him also at large. Institut. lib. 4. cap. 15. where he shows that Baptism is appointed to seal up the present pardon of sin, and to show our mortification and newness of life, &c. And so that it is to be administered to them that believe. Yet he maintaineth, that the use of it is also for the pardon of sin through all our life after; but that is only to be given as the consolation of the truly penitent.

See him also at large. Institut. lib. 4. cap. 15. where he shews that Baptism is appointed to seal up the present pardon of sin, and to shew our mortification and newness of life, &c. And so that it is to be administred to them that believe. Yet he maintaineth, that the use of it is also for the pardon of sin through all our life after; but that is only to be given as the consolation of the truly penitent.

Beza confess. sid. cap. 4. §. 46, 17. pa. (mihi) 28, 29. knows no faith but one,¹ and that the saving faith which all must bring to the Sacrament that will have the thing signified; and all that are without it he reckoneth hypocrites, and knows no other baptized ones but elect believers and hypocrites; and saith, that upon the confession of true faith in baptism, we are to take them for faithful, till they show themselves hypocrites. [Affix mamus signa exteriora naturali modo percipitū à fidelibus, tū ab infidelibus, sed contaio prosus eventu. Fiddles praeter signare ipsas percipiunt, &c. Res ipsa baptismi est aspersio sanguinis Christi in