CALVIN ON THE VALIDITY OF ‘ROMISH’ BAPTISM
Baptism into the Name of the Triune God …………………………………p. 4 Adamic Presbyterianism: mankind’s first religion …………………………….p. 6 Different deviations from primordial Presbyterianism ………………………….p. 7 Calvin’s protestantization and exodus from Romanism ………………………..p. 9 Calvin’s account of his own conversion to Christ …………………………….p. 9 Calvin’s Institutes prove he was no Anabaptist …………………………….p. 10 Baptismal background of Calvin and his immediate family ……………………..p. 11 1542: Calvin’s Form of Administering Baptism …………………………….p. 12 Calvin’s 1542 Brief Form of a Confession of Faith ………………………….p. 13 1546-47: the baptismal declarations of the Romish Council of Trent ………………p. 14 Calvin’s response to Trent on the ‘seven sacraments’ …………………………p. 15 Calvin responds to Trent on the ex opere operato …………………………..p. 15 Trent and Calvin on unrepeatable baptism’s “indelibility” ………………………p. 16 Calvin versus Trent on “intention” at baptisms …………………………….p. 17 Calvin repudiates Trent on “additions” to baptism …………………………..p. 17 Calvin agrees with Trent that ‘Roman baptism’ is valid ………………………..p. 18 Trent and Calvin agree that ‘baptism by heretics’ is valid ……………………….p. 18 Trent wrongly refers baptism only to prebaptismal sins ……………………….p. 18 Trent rightly refuses to rebaptize anyone priorly baptized ………………………p. 19 Calvin ‘liberates’ baptism from Trent’s enshackling chrism ……………………..p. 20 Calvin’s opposition to the Interim Declaration of Religion ……………………..p. 21 Calvin on the Romish mutilation of baptism ……………………………….p. 22 Calvin: baptism unrepeatable even to Simon the sorcerer ………………………p. 22 No rebaptism, says Calvin, in Acts 19:1-5 ………………………………..p. 23 Calvin on the validity of ‘Romish baptisms’ in his 1555f Sermons on Deuteronomy ……..p. 23 Calvin believed the Minor Prophets imply ‘Romish’ baptisms are valid ……………..p. 26 Calvin says baptism in Rome and even by the devil is still valid ………………….p. 26 The papal antichrist cannot invalidate baptism in Roman Church …………………p. 27 Calvin rejects Romish ‘holy water’ as quasi-rebaptistic ………………………..p. 28 Donatism and Catabaptism decisively rejected by Calvin ………………………p. 29 A baptizee’s lack of faith does not invalidate that baptism ………………………p. 30 No rebaptisms of the apostles; nor by Paul at Ephesus ………………………..p. 31 Ecclesiastical embellishments to baptism do not invalidate it ……………………p. 31 The connection between unrepeatable baptism and confirmation …………………p. 33 Confirmation no ‘repetition’ of unrepeatable baptism …………………………p. 34 Unrepeatable baptism and lifelong repentance ……………………………..p. 35 Calvin assures Knox that Rome’s baptisms are valid ………………………….p. 35 Rome’s baptisms recognized in Calvin’s French Confession …………………….p. 36 Trent (1545-1563) never changed Rome’s doctrine of baptism …………………..p. 37 Calvin’s 1563 views on the validity of Zipporah’s circumcising …………………..p. 37
