e,
and we pray God to grant it faith, but we do not baptise it upon
that, but solely upon the command of God." [18] Still more
explicit is a sermon on the Third Sunday after Epiphany; "The
words, Mark 16:16, Romans 1:17, and John 3:16, 18 are clear, to
the effect that every one must believe for himself, and no one
can be helped by the faith of any me else, but only by his own
faith." "It is just as in the natural life, no one can be born
for me, but I must be born myself. My mother may bring me to
birth, but it is I who am born, and no me else." "Thus no one is
saved by the faith of another, but solely by his own faith." [19]

The treatise is found in _Weimar Ed._, II, 724-737; _Erlangen
Ed._, XXI, 229-244; St. Louis Ed., X, 2113-2116; Clemen and
Leitzmann, _Luthers Werke_, I, (1912), 185-195.

HENRY E. JACOBS.

Mount Airy, Philadelphia.

FOOTNOTES

[1] _Erl. Ed., op. var. arg._, III, 394-410.

[2] _Erl. Ed._, XXVI, 256-294.

[3] _Erl. Ed., op. var. arg._, V. 66. For an exhaustive treatment
of Luther's attitude to immersion, sprinkling, and pouring, see
Krauth, _Conservative Reformation_, 519-544.

[4] For formulas, see Hofling, _Das Sacrament der Taufe_, II. 40.

[5] Riechschel, _Lehrbuch der Liturgik_, II, 67 f.

[6] "If Infant Baptism were not right, then for one thousand
years there was no baptism and no Christian Church," _Erl. Ed._,
XXVI, 287.

[7] More literally, but with no great difference, in the Lutheran
Church Book, p. 323. The Book of Common Prayer, following the II.
Prayerbook of Edward VI, has abbreviated it.

[8] _Small Catechism_: "Baptism signifies that the old Adam in us
is to be drowned and destroyed by daily sorrow and repentance,
together with all sins and evil lusts; and that again the new man
should daily come forth and rise, that shall live in the presence
of God, in righteousness and purity for ever."

[9] _Decrees of Trent_, Session V, 5: "If any one asserts that
the whole of that which has the proper nature of sin is not taken
away, but only evaded or not imputed, let him be accursed."

[10] _Book of Concord_, Eng. Trans., p. 475.

[11] Luther recurs to this subject in a subsequent treatise, the
_Confitendi Ratio_, below pp. 81 ff.

[12] i. e. The theory of the Roman Church that even without the
faith of a recipient, the blessing of the sacrament is bestowed.

[13] _Erl. Ed._, XXVI, 268.

[14] _Ibid._, 269.

[15] _Erl. Ed._, XXVI, 292.

[16] _Ibid_., 275.

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