[1713] “DG.,” 3³, p. 616 (omitted in the 4th edition).
[1714] Ibid., p. 808, and 3^[4], p. 896 f.
[1715] 3^[4], p. 857 f.
[1716] Vol. 1², p. 213 ff.
[1717] Cp. Möhler, “Symbolik,” 30. Cp. above, vol. iii., p. 10 f.
[1718] Köstlin, “Luthers Theol.,” 2², p. 237 f.
[1719] “Werke,” Erl. ed., 65, p. 170, “Wider die xxxii. Artikel der Teologisten von Löven.”
[1720] To Melanchthon from the Wartburg, Jan. 13, 1522, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 273 f. Because reason is “diametrically opposed to faith” and gleams only like “a smudge on a lantern” (p. 156), people, so he says, “would believe better were they a little less reasonable” (p. 162). But “even though it were true, which it is not,” and even were we to allow that infants do not believe at all, are without reason and cannot grasp the Word of God, would their baptism therefore “be wrong”? Even then it would have its value.
[1721] P. 256.
[1722] Vol. 17, No. 2.