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158 who offer him, or who minister, but 'except he be born again of water and the .' The water then exhibiting without, the Sacrament of Grace and the Spirit working within, the benefit of grace, loosing the band of sin, restoring good to nature, do, both together, regenerate in one, man, who was generated of one Adam." And Luther says well, "That Baptism may be assured in us, therefore doth not found it upon our faith, since that may be uncertain and false, but on  word and institution."

Else, also, if the regeneration of the child depended upon the holiness of the parent, then, since, according to the views in question, those who are regenerated are finally saved, all the children of believing parents, and they only, would be regenerated and so saved: whereas, as one of their own writers says "all children saved are not of believing parents: yea, we may in charitie presume of some, perhaps, without the Church, whom the Lord mercifully saveth out of most wicked progenitors for many generations." Not, manifestly, as if the faith and longing desires, and yearnings, and prayers of the parents for the child