Gregory Nazianzen calls baptism, “That good thing which gives us initiation into Christ; which common benefit and foundation of new life we all receive from God.”[105] In his oration or homily touching on baptism, after a large and eloquent narration of the efficacy of baptism, he says that it has force even on infants also, and therefore would have them baptized on this ground, that he takes it for granted, that they also are, in some degree, sanctified even in baptism.
