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Rh justification ; they assert that those who are truly baptized corruption, but not imputed to them, before Baptism." Add. 4. 8. 14, and 15. "The opponents attribute to the Sacraments more than they ought; for they suppose that sin is remitted by the force and efficacy of the action of Baptism, and acknowledge not, that by the Sacraments, the remission is rather sealed, which remission adults obtain by believing, and the little ones of believers, who belong to the election, have grace already through the ." Witsius (L. c. § 32) quotes from the Baptismal Liturgy of the Belgic Church the question addressed to the parents, and to be answered in the affirmative: "Although our children are conceived and born in sin, and so are obnoxious to eternal condemnation, do you not acknowledge them to he sanctified (sanctificati) in Christ, and that, therefore, as being members of His Church, they are to be baptized (baptizandos.") [In capitals ap. Wits.] Calvin (Institt. 4. 16. 22.), "Little ones have remission of sins given to them: therefore, they are not to be deprived of the sign of it" (against the Anabaptists.) Whitaker (de Sacram. q. 6. c. 4. p. 193. ap. Gatak. p. 123.) "Nor is original sin remitted in Baptism in any other way than in the Eucharist. For in each Sacrament, remission of sins is sealed to us." Gataker (l.c. p. 94.) "That any promise of remitting original sin is annexed to Baptism, I nowhere read; but, with me, the saying holds here, 'What I read not, I believe not.'" Hooper's Confession of Faith, § 18. "As for those that say Circumcision and Baptism be like, and yet attribute the remission of original sin to Baptism, which was never given to Circumcision, they not only destroy the similitude and equality which should be between them, but also take from Christ remission of sin, and translate it unto the water and element of Baptism." T. C. confutation of Rhemish Test. "This holiness of childrem is, not to be sinners by nature (the Apostle telleth you. Gal. ii. 15.), as those which are born of the heathen; forasmuch as their sinnes, who are in the covenant, are, by, not reckoned unto them."