I A TREATISE ON RE-BAPTISM. 417 begiverijjhithismanner and on thisprinciplein the church, sothatIjg^invocationof the name of Jesus,which cannot be doneaw0f u^c 7 not seem tobe heldindisesteemby us;which assuredjjjYO^*^ fitting; althoughsuch an invocation,ifnone of tho^e jBSor,of which we have spoken should followit, may fQf £pd, we deprived of the effectof salvation.For when i>y ^whete saidthattherewas " one baptism,"1itmust needs\reaf an 1by the continuedeffectof the invocationof thenanonj at lsus,because,once invoked,itcannot be taken away bj js^orman, even althoughwe might venture,against thedecis,g-cocthe apostles,to repeatitby givingtoomuch, yea,by th } tesireof superaddingbaptism. If he who returns tothe chuich be unwillingagain to be baptized,the result -willbe tbat we may defraudhim of thebaptismof the Spirit, whom we thinkwe must not defraud of the baptismof water. 11. And what wilt thou determine againstthe person of him who hears theword,2 and haplytakenup in the name of Christ,has at once confessed,and has been punished before ithas been granted him to be baptizedwith water? Wilt thou declarehim to have perishedbecausehe has not been baptizedwith water? Or, indeed,wiltthou thinkthatthere may be something from withoutthat helpshim to salvation, althoughhe isnot baptizedwith water? Thy thinkinghim to have perished will be opposed by the sentence of the Lord, who says," Whosoever shallconfessme beforemen, him willI alsoconfessbeforemy Father which isin heaven;"3 because it is no matter whether he who confessesfor the Lord is a hearer of the word or a believer,so long as he confessesthatsame Christwhom he ought toconfess;because the Lord, by confessinghim, in turn Himself graces His confessorbefore His Father with the gloryof hismartyrdom, as He promised. But thisassuredlyought not to be taken too liberally,as if itcould be stretchedto such a point as thatany hereticcan confessthe name of Christwho notwith standingdenies ChristHimself; thathe believeson another 1 Eph. iv.5- 2 By him who hearstheword ismeanta catechumen(Rigaltius) * Matt.x.32. CTP.— VOL. II. 2 T>