And indeed, it is absurd to say that the grace of that sacrament cannot be attained by infants without actual faith in them, when as it is clear that one part of its inward grace is the Spirit, the worker of faith. Now, no man sound in mind in his wits will say that no person can first receive the Spirit, but by the hand of actual faith, without the Spirit to work it in him?[41]He must therefore first be a partaker of the Spirit of faith to beget faith in him. This Spirit, then, he may receive in baptism, without actual faith to take him in.
