Baptism is for your sin and shame
“The saying is: abuse does not destroy the essence, but confirms it. For gold is not the less gold though a harlot wear it in sin and shame.”
Baptism for your crises of faith
Therefore I say, if you did not believe then believe now and say thus: The baptism indeed was right, but I, alas! did not receive it aright. For I myself also, and all who are baptized, must [...]
Which came first, the sinner or the baptism?
“For my faith does not make Baptism, but receives it. Now, Baptism does not become invalid even though it be wrongly received or employed; since it is not bound (as stated) to our faith, but to [...]
Baptism doesn’t care what you believe
“Further, we say that we are not so much concerned to know whether the person baptized believes or not; for on that account Baptism does not become invalid; but everything depends upon the Word [...]
Baptism works on babies and you can see it
That the Baptism of infants is pleasing to Christ is sufficiently proved from His own work, namely, that God sanctifies many of them who have been thus baptized, and has given them the Holy Ghost
If you’ve never worried about baptism…don’t start now.
Why we do theology matters. We don’t do it to go looking for more to worry about or more to fight over. God gives us His word for comfort.
Baptized for body and soul both
For that is the reason why these two things are done in Baptism, namely, that the body, which can apprehend nothing but the water, is sprinkled, and, in addition, the word is spoken for the soul [...]
Baptism wants your ears.
But it requires skill to believe this, for the treasure is not wanting, but this is wanting that men apprehend it and hold it firmly.
God died for you. God baptized you.
“there is here no work done by us, but a treasure which He gives us, and which faith apprehends; just as the Lord Jesus Christ upon the cross is not a work, but a treasure comprehended in [...]