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XXVII. The Image of Christ Crucified in the Imagination or mind of a Believer is a sin: Therefore it is a sin to think of a Crucified Christ, or to know Christ crucified, or to love Christ crucified as such: For it is impossible to think on him, know him or love him as crucified, without the Image of him on the mind: Therefore Paul determined to do nothing but sin, when he determined to know nothing but Christ and him crucified: and instead of anathematizing them that love him not, he should have anathematized or reproved all that love him as crucified.

Do you and your Companions know that you are renouncing your Baptism, and Christianity, and the Cross of Christ, while you would rebaptize us all? I charge it not on you as your meaning: But if it be not the downright consequence of the words of all my Religious backbiters, who say that the Image of Christ crucified befitteth not our minds or imaginations, but is a sin there, I have lost all my reasoning faculty, and know not what Man or Reason is.

XXVIII. Ibid. & Ed. 2. p. 372. [That the Ordination and Ministerial Office received by any that live in Communion with the Church of Rome, and consequently all their baptizings and other ministrations are not only sins but nullities: (Though they were such as Bernard, Malachi, Patrick, Gerson, Ferus, Kempis, Gerard Zurphaniensis, &c.) And so none of the English Nation had true baptism from their first Conversion ⟨p. 321⟩by Augustine till the Reformation, but all died unbaptized and should have been baptized again: And so should all baptized by them in any Kingdoms of Europe or the World: and so Luther, Zuinglius, Martyr, Musculus, and the rest of our first Reformers, were never Christened, but all dyed unbaptized persons, and should have been baptized after their conversion.