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Formula of Concord, Epitome | paragraph 8
...ians, because they have been born of Christian and believing parents, are holy and children of God even without and before Baptism; and for this reason they neither attach much importance to the baptism of children nor encourage it, contrary to the express words of God’s promise which pertains only to those who keep His covenant and do no...
Open source textFormula of Concord, Solid Declaration | paragraph 13
...ns, since they have been born of Christian and believing parents, are holy and the children of God even without and before Baptism; and for this reason they neither attach much importance to the baptism of children nor encourage it, contrary to the express words of the promise, which extends only to those who keep God’s covenant and do no...
Open source textFormula of Concord, Solid Declaration | paragraph 87
...offered up or enclosed, borne about, and exhibited for adoration, it is to be regarded as no sacrament; just as the water of baptism, when used to consecrate bells or to cure leprosy, or otherwise exhibited for worship, is no sacrament or baptism. For against such papistic abuses this rule has been set up at the beginning [of the revivin...
Open source textFormula of Concord, Epitome | paragraph 6
...s and innocent, who in their innocency, because they have not yet attained their reason [the use of reason], are saved without Baptism (which, according to their assertion, they do not need). Therefore they reject the entire doctrine concerning original sin and what belongs to it.
Open source textFormula of Concord, Epitome | paragraph 23
4. That the water of Baptism is not a means whereby God the Lord seals the adoption of sons and works regeneration.
Open source textFormula of Concord, Solid Declaration | paragraph 11
...who are not baptized are not sinners before God, but righteous and innocent, and thus are saved in their innocency without Baptism, which they do not need. Accordingly, they deny and reject the entire doctrine concerning original sin and what belongs to it.
Open source textFormula of Concord, Solid Declaration | paragraph 31
3. That the water of Baptism is not a means by which God the Lord seals adoption and works regeneration.
Open source textFormula of Concord, Solid Declaration | paragraph 15
...uld thank God from the heart that by His Son He has delivered us from the darkness of ignorance and the captivity of sin and death, and through Baptism and the Holy Ghost regenerated and illumined us.
Open source textFormula of Concord, Solid Declaration | paragraph 16
And after God through the Holy Ghost in Baptism has kindled and effected a beginning of the true knowledge of God and faith, we should pray Him without ceasing that through the same spirit and His grace, by means of the daily exercise of reading and practising God’s Word, He would preserve in us faith and His heavenly gifts, strengthen us...
Open source textFormula of Concord, Solid Declaration | paragraph 50
...signs of the covenant and of grace or sacraments, as [for example] circumcision, the various offerings in the Old Testament and Holy Baptism, He uses not allegorical, but entirely proper, simple, indubitable, and clear words; and in order that no misunderstanding can occur, He explains them more clearly with the words: Given for you, shed...
Open source textFormula of Concord, Solid Declaration | paragraph 72
...y attain this, persevere in it, and remain steadfast, we should implore God for His grace, which He has promised us in Holy Baptism, and, no doubt, He will impart it to us according to His promise, as He has said, Luke 11:11ff : If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he...
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