Peter Martyr Vermigli on baptism and original sin

[Reformed Covenanter]

Paul in the 6. chap to the Rom. saith: That therefore we must not abide in sin, because we are now dead unto it. And that thing he proveth by Baptism. For whatsoever we be (saith he) that are baptised in Christ Jesus, we are baptised in his death, to this end that we should die unto sin: and that our old man should be crucified, and the body of sin abolished. And for as much as children are baptised, even thereby we have a testimony that there is sin in them. For otherwise the nature of Baptism, as it is there described of Paul, should not consist. The same reason hath he also in his epistle to the Colossians, where he saith, that we are Circumcised with circumcision not made with hands, in making clean the sinful body of the flesh, being buried together with Christ in Baptism.

He compareth Baptism with Circumcision: & saith, that they which are baptised, are made clean from the body of sin. Neither is it to be doubted, but that they which are baptised, are baptised into the remission of sins. And assuredly the circumcision, which in the old law was given unto Children, was correspondent unto our Baptism. And as touching circumcision, it is written, The soul whose flesh of the foreskin is not circumcised the eighth day, let it die the death. Wherefore seeing children have need of the sacrament of regeneration, it followeth of necessity, that they are borne subject unto sin.

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