37. A sufficient answer, then, seems to have
been given to their suggestion. Now I ask them, what the Saviour
asked: “The baptism of John, was it from heaven or
men?” S. Luke xx. 4. The Jews
could not answer Him. If the Jews did not make nothing of the
baptism of John, does Auxentius make nothing of the baptism of
Christ? For that is not a baptism of men, but from heaven, which
the angel of great counsel Isa. ix. 6. has brought to
us, that we might be justified to God. Wherefore, then, does
Auxentius hold that the faithful ought to be rebaptized, when they have
been baptized in the name of the Trinity, when the Apostle says:
“One faith, one baptism”? Eph. iv. 5. And wherefore does he say that he
is man’s enemy, not Christ’s, seeing that he despises the
counsel of God and condemns the baptism which Christ has granted us to
redeem our sins.