412 A TREATISE ON RE-BAPTISM.
and of the Holy Ghost."1 Because, although this is true
and right,and to be observed by allmeans in the church,
and moreover has been used to be observed,yet itbehoves us
to considerthat invocationof the name of Jesus ought not
to be thought futileby us on accountof the veneration and
power of thatvery name, in which name allkinds of power
areaccustomed tobe exercised,and occasionallysome even by
men outsidethe church. But to what effectare those words
of Christ,who saidthatHe would deny, and not know, those
who should say to Him in the day of judgment, " Lord,
Lord, have we not prophesiedin Thy name, and inThy name
cast out demons, and in Thy name done many wonderful
works,"when He answered them, even with emphasis,2" I
never knew you; depart from me, ye who work iniquity/.!
unlessthat itshouldbe shown to us,thateven by those who
work iniquitymight thesegood works alsobe done, by the
superfluousenergy of the name of Christ? Thereforeought
thisinvocationof the name of Jesus to be received as a
certainbeginningof the mystery of the Lord common to us
and to allothers,which may afterwardsbe filledup with the
remaining things; otherwisesuch an invocationwould not
availif itshouldremain alone,because afterthe death of a
man in thispositiontherecannot be added tohim anything at
all,nor supplemented,nor can in anything availhim in the
day of judgment, when they shallbegin to be reproached
by our Lord with those thingswhich we have above men
tioned,none of whom notwithstandingin thispresenttime
may by any man be so hardly and cruellyprohibitedfrom
aidingthemselvesin thoseways which we have above shown.
8. But thesethingsthou wilt,as thou artwont,contradict,
by objectingto us, that when they were baptized,the dis
cipleswere baptizedperfectly,and rightly,and not as these
heretics; and thisthou must needs assume from their con
dition,and His who baptizedthem. And thereforewe replv
to thispropositionof thine,not as accusersof the Lord's dis
ciples,but as we are constrained,because itisnecessarythat
we shouldinvestigateby reasonswhere and when, and in what
1Matt,xxviii.19. 2 " Jurejurando." 3 Mark xiv.27.