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106 taught, and no long study is needed to disclose the fact that infant baptism certainly does not lie on the surface of the New Testament writings.

Those who hold that the Swiss Anabaptists had derived their views from Münzer cannot have read attentively the letter written by Grebel, Mantz, and others, September 5, 1524, in which they request from him a statement of his ideas regarding baptism; and, after expounding their own doctrine at some length, go on to say:

This is hardly the language of disciples to a master, and the whole letter is similar in tone. In a word,