De Baptismo
The Gift of Baptism
Baptism is taught as necessary for salvation, offering God's grace, and children are to be baptized to be received into God's grace.
They teach that Baptism is necessary for salvation, and that through Baptism the grace of God is offered, and that children are to be baptized, who through Baptism, being offered to God, are received into the grace of God.
Rejecting the Anabaptist Error
The Anabaptists are condemned for rejecting the baptism of children and claiming children can be saved without it.
They condemn the Anabaptists, who reject the baptism of children, and claim that children can be saved without baptism.
Read the original Latin
De Baptismo docent, quod sit necessarius ad salutem, quodque per Baptismum offeratur gratia Dei, et quod pueri sint baptizandi, qui per baptismum oblati Deo recipiantur in gratiam Dei.
Damnant Anabaptistas, qui improbant baptismum puerorum, et affirmant pueros sine baptismo salvos fieri.
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