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.