But Calvin directly affirms,[163] “Till by faith we lay hold upon the promise sealed in baptism, our baptism is not worth a rush unto us?” To this I have sufficiently answered more than once before; and particularly in chapter 4, in confirmation of the major proposition of my third argument: the sum of which is briefly this; The sacrament profits no man of years, without faith to apprehend the promise: nor can the elect themselves sensibly perceive the fruit and comfort of their baptism, in the ordinary course, until after they have obtained actual faith at their actual conversion. Nor does it
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