Mount Airy, Philadelphia.
FOOTNOTES
[1] Erl. Ed., op. var. arg., III, 394-410.
[2] Erl. Ed., XXVI, 256-294.
[3] Erl. Ed., op. var. arg., V. 66. For an exhaustive treatment of Luther's attitude to immersion, sprinkling, and pouring, see Krauth, Conservative Reformation, 519-544.
[4] For formulas, see Höfling, Das Sacrament der Taufe, II. 40.
[5] Riechschel, Lehrbuch der Liturgik, II, 67 f.
[6] "If Infant Baptism were not right, then for one thousand years there was no baptism and no Christian Church," Erl. Ed., XXVI, 287.
[7] More literally, but with no great difference, in the Lutheran Church Book, p. 323. The Book of Common Prayer, following the II. Prayerbook of Edward VI, has abbreviated it.
[8] Small Catechism: "Baptism signifies that the old Adam in us is to be drowned and destroyed by daily sorrow and repentance, together with all sins and evil lusts; and that again the new man should daily come forth and rise, that shall live in the presence of God, in righteousness and purity for ever."