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58Tertullian, On Baptism, 10.2-6. are cancelled “in response to faith signed and sealed in the Father and the Son and the Holy. Spirit.60 However, Tertullian‟s statement that sins are cancelled “in response to faith” also. indicates that faith must be “signed and sealed in the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost.”.
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- Chapter 1. Introduction. Origin of The Treatise
- Chapter 7. of The Unction
- Chapter 8. of The Imposition of hands. Types of The Deluge and The Dove
- Chapter 9. Types of The Red Sea, and The Water from The Rock
- Chapter 10. of John's Baptism
- Chapter 11. Answer to The Objection That The Lord Did Not baptize.
- Chapter 12. of The Necessity of Baptism to Salvation
- Chapter 14. of Paul's Assertion, That He Had Not Been Sent to Baptize
- Chapter 15. Unity of Baptism. Remarks on Heretical and Jewish Baptism
- Chapter 16. of The Second Baptism — with Blood
Happy is our sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life! A treatise on this matter will not be superfluous; instructing not only such as are just becoming formed (in the faith), but them who, content with having simply believed, without full examination of the grounds...
After this, when we have issued from the font, we are thoroughly anointed with a blessed unction, — (a practice derived) from the old discipline, wherein on entering the priesthood, men were wont to be anointed with oil from a horn, ever since Aaron was anointed by Moses. Whence Aaron is called Christ, from the chrism, which is the unction; which, ...
In the next place the hand is laid on us, invoking and inviting the Holy Spirit through benediction. Shall it be granted possible for human ingenuity to summon a spirit into water, and, by the application of hands from above, to animate their union into one body with another spirit of so clear sound; and shall it not be possible for God, in the cas...
How many, therefore, are the pleas of nature, how many the privileges of grace, how many the solemnities of discipline, the figures, the preparations, the prayers, which have ordained the sanctity of water? First, indeed, when the people, set unconditionally free, escaped the violence of the Egyptian king by crossing over through water, it was wate...
We have spoken, so far as our moderate ability permitted, of the generals which form the groundwork of the sanctity of baptism. I will now, equally to the best of my power, proceed to the rest of its character, touching certain minor questions. The baptism announced by John formed the subject, even at that time, of a question, proposed by the Lord ...
But behold, say some, the Lord came, and baptized not; for we read, 'And yet He used not to baptize, but His disciples!' John 4:2 As if, in truth, John had preached that He would baptize with His own hands! Of course, his words are not so to be understood, but as simply spoken after an ordinary manner; just as, for instance, we say, The emperor set...
When, however, the prescript is laid down that without baptism, salvation is attainable by none (chiefly on the ground of that declaration of the Lord, who says, Unless one be born of water, he has not life ), there arise immediately scrupulous, nay rather audacious, doubts on the part of some, how, in accordance with that prescript, salvation is a...
But they roll back an objection from that apostle himself, in that he said, For Christ sent me not to baptize; 1 Corinthians 1:17 as if by this argument baptism were done away! For if so, why did he baptize Gaius, and Crispus, and the house of Stephanas? However, even if Christ had not sent him to baptize, yet He had given other apostles the precep...
I know not whether any further point is mooted to bring baptism into controversy. Permit me to call to mind what I have omitted above, lest I seem to break off the train of impending thoughts in the middle. There is to us one, and but one, baptism; as well according to the Lord's gospel as according to the apostle's letters, inasmuch as he says, On...
We have indeed, likewise, a second font, (itself withal one with the former,) of blood, to wit; concerning which the Lord said, I have to be baptized with a baptism, when He had been baptized already. For He had come by means of water and blood, 1 John 5:6 just as John has written; that He might be baptized by the water, glorified by the blood; to ...
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Feb 3, 1998 · Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III : On Baptism. Chapter I.-Introduction. Origin of the Treatise. Chapter II.-The Very Simplicity of God's Means of Working, a Stumbling-Block to the Carnal Mind. Chapter III.-Water Chosen as a Vehicle of Divine Operation and Wherefore. Its Prominence First of All in Creation.
The article is important in terms of providing a perspective on the concept of baptism practiced in the early period of Christianity, especially on infant/child baptism. The aim of this article is to present Tertullian's views on baptism in a tidy and detailed manner.
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Tertullian: On Baptism - Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Chapter XVIII.—Of the Persons to Whom, and the Time When, Baptism is to Be Administered. But they whose office it is, know that baptism is not rashly to be administered. “Give to every one who beggeth thee,” 8722 has a reference of its own, appertaining especially to almsgiving.
This study does a hermeneutical retrieval of the early church’s teaching on baptism and original sin in the light of Tertullian as the pillar of western theology. The study concludes by invoking pastoral consideration to baptize polygamous families (husband and wives) who married before converting to the faith.
On Baptism. [Translated by the Rev. S. Thelwall.] ———————————— Chapter I.—Introduction. Origin of the Treatise. Happy is our 8542 sacrament of water, in that, by washing away the sins of our early blindness, we are set free and admitted into eternal life!
