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“Baptism should be given to all those who have learned repentance and
change of life, and believe in truth that their sins have been taken away
through Christ.” f458
Hans Overton, in 1520, said:
“It is not enough that we have received baptism on the confession of our faith
and by that faith have been engrafted into Christ.” f459
In 1529, Anabaptist sufferers in prison said in their appeal to their persecutors:
“Baptism is the registering of believers in the eternal church of God. Faith
confessed is wine and baptism is the sign hung out to show that wine is
within. What a thing is this to hang out a sign while the wine is still in the
grape on the vine, when it may be dried up.” f460
“In 1532, a book appeared in Holland, without the name of the author. … It
was soon translated into English, French and Italian, and so many editions
were sold that it added largely in spreading Baptist views throughout Europe.
… On baptism it says: ‘So we are dipped under as a sign that we are as it
were dead and buried as Paul writes in Rom. 6 and Col. 2. … The pledge is
given when we are plunged under the water.’” f461
An Anabaptist woman, when
“on the rack was asked whether she ‘expected to be saved by baptism?’ She
answered: ‘No, all the water in the sea cannot save me, nor anything else but
that salvation which is in Christ.’” f463
That the Anabaptists did not believe in water salvation or Campbellism is
certain from abundance of testimony, additional to this. But I will close the
testimony on this point in the language of Dr. Philip Schaff, of the Anabaptists:
“They denied that baptism is necessary for salvation.” f464 The Anabaptists in
the Schleitheim Confession said that “he who serves the gospel should also
live from it as the Lord has ordained.” f465
The Anabaptists were what are called “close communion” Baptists. On the
terms of communion the Schleitheim Confession says:
“We are one and are agreed concerning breaking of bread. … that all who
would drink one draught as a memorial of the poured blood of Christ should
before hand be united to one body of Christ, to-wit: by baptism. … Hence,
also it should and must be whoso has not the call of one God to one faith, to
one baptism, to one spirit, to one body, common to all the children of God, he
cannot be made one bread with them, as must be if he would in truth break
bread according to the command of Christ.” f466
The Anabaptists had no sympathy with the doctrine of infant damnation.