# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_Januar 1862_S9
# AI translation — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

Theological Axioms. 9

26. Non baptismus, sed fides baptismi salvat. (Aeg. Hunnius.)

Not baptism, but faith in baptism, saves.

27. Peccatum in baptismo remittitur, non ut non sit, sed ut non imputetur. (Augustine.)

Sin is forgiven in baptism, not in the sense that it is no longer present, but in the sense that it is not imputed.

28. Fides in aquis baptismi datur vel nutritur, quia non habenti aliquam ibi datur, et jam habenti, ut plenius habeat, datur. (Jerome.)

In the water of baptism, faith is given or nourished: it is given there to him who has none, and to him who already has it, it is granted so that he may have it more fully.

29. Quamvis multi ante usum baptismi verbo vere sint regenerati, nihilo minus baptismus vere et proprie est lavacrum regenerationis; sicut multi audiunt verbum, qui jam ante sunt regeniti, nihilo tamen minus verbum est et manet spirituale et incorruptibile illud semen, per quod renascimur. (Gerh.)

Although many, before the use of baptism, have truly been regenerated through the word, baptism is nonetheless truly and properly the washing of regeneration; just as many hear the word who have already been regenerated beforehand, the word is nonetheless and remains that spiritual and incorruptible seed through which we are reborn.

30. In adultis (fidelibus) baptismus non quidem primo confert donum regenerationis, sed in illis auget et efficaciter obsignat. (Quenstedt.)

In adults (who are believers), baptism does not indeed first confer the gift of regeneration, but it increases it and effectively seals it in them.

31. My faith does not make baptism, but receives baptism. (Luther's Large Catechism.)

32. Abusus non tollit usum, sed confirmat substantiam. (Luther's Large Catechism.)

"Abuse does not take away the substance, but confirms it."

33. Where baptism would not in itself be right, one could not abuse it. (Luther's Large Catechism.)

34. Quamvis non omnes adulti per baptismum regenerentur, illi scl., qui operationi Spiritus S. resistunt et hypocrisi sua ipsius operationem impediunt, tamen baptismus in se ac per se non desinit esse regenerationis medium, quod exemplo verbi declaratur. (Gerh.)

Although not all adults are regenerated through baptism — namely, those who resist the working of the Holy Spirit and hinder his working through their hypocrisy — baptism, nevertheless, does not in and of itself cease to be a means of regeneration, as is made clear by the example of the word.