There are many kinds of baptism, but “one baptism” is the cry of the apostle. Why? There are socalled baptisms among unbelievers, but they are not baptisms. They are washings but cannot be baptisms. .
They who contend that persons baptized among the heretics ought to be received as if they had obtained the grace of lawful baptism, say that baptism is one and the same to them and to us, and differs in no respect. But what says the Apostle Paul? "One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God.".
This one will be here, where there is the true hope and the certain faith. For thus it is written: "One faith, one hope, one baptism; ".
said: It is written, that "God is one, and Christ is one, and the Church is one, and baptism is one."
This contains some more reasons why Christians should love one another. We are all the servants of the same God, believe the same mysteries, and receive the same sacraments, whoever may be the dispenser of them.
One faith. As rebellion is the bane of commonwealths and kingdoms, and peace and concord the preservation of the same; so is schism, and diversity of faith or fellowship in the service of God, the calamity of the Church: and peace, unity, and uniformity, the special blessing of God therein. St. Cyprian, in his book on the unity of the Church, writeth thus: "One Church, for one is my dove. This unity of the Church, he that holdeth not, doth he think he holdeth the faith? He that withstandeth or resisteth the Church, he that resisteth Peter's chair, upon which the Church was built, doth he trust that he is in the Church? "And again, Ep. xl. "There is one God, and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair, by our Lord's voice founded upon Peter. To set up another altar, or to con...
Since also "there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.".
Since, also, there is but one unbegotten Being, God, even the Father; and one only-begotten Son, God, the Word and man; and one Comforter, the Spirit of truth; and also one preaching, and one faith, and one baptism;.
Said also that "there is one Mediator between God and men.".
For "there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is through all, and in all."
There is one Lord and one God, because the dominion of Father and Son is a single Godhead. The faith is said to be one because we believe similarly in Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Baptism is one. We are all baptized in the same way in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We are immersed three times so that the sacrament of the Trinity may be apparent…. There is one baptism in the Spirit, in water and in fire. –.
Now what is this one body? The faithful throughout the whole world, both which are, and which have been, and which shall be. And again, they that before Christ's coming pleased God, are one body. How so? Because they also knew Christ. Whence does this appear? Your father Abraham, says He, rejoiced to see My day, and he saw it, and was glad. John 8:56 And again, If you had believed Moses, He says, ye would have believed Me, for he wrote of Me. John 5:46 And the prophets too would not have written of One, of whom they knew not what they said; whereas they both knew Him, and worshipped Him. Thus then were they also one body.
The body is not disjoined from the spirit, for then would it not be a body. Thus it is customary also with us, touching things which are united, and which have any great consistency or coherence, to say, they are one body. And thus again, touching union, we take that to be a body which is under one head. If there be one head, then is there one body. The body is com...
So that the invocation of the name of Jesus, which cannot be done away, may not seem to be held in disesteem by us; which assuredly is not fitting; although such an invocation, if none of those things of which we have spoken should follow it, may fail and be deprived of the effect of salvation. For when the apostle said that there was "one baptism"
A resurrection. We have the apostle in another passage defining "but one baptism.".
. What, then, shall they do who are baptized for the body.
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also, therefore was the definition touching the one bathing.
God wills us all to he so conditioned, as to be ready at all times and places to undertake (the duties of) His sacraments. There is "one God, one faith"
