Chap. 5. the. 12. Diuision.
The authors of the Admonition obiect that necessitie of saluation is tyed to the Sacraments by this meanes, and that men are confirmed in that olde errour that no man can be saued without baptisme, whiche in deede is true. For muste it not be thought to be done of necessitie, and vpon great extremitie, for the doing whereof the orders that God hathe let, that it shoulde be done in the congregation, and by the Minister of the Gospell, are broken? Yes verily. And I wyll further say, that although that the Infants which dye without baptisme should be assuredly dam∣ned (whiche is moste false) yet oughte not the orders whiche God hathe set in hys Churche, to be broken after this sorte. For as the saluation of men oughte to be beare vnto vs: so the glo∣ry of God, whiche consisteth in that his orders be kepte, ought to be muche more deare, that if at any time the controuersie coulde be betweene his glory and our saluation, our saluation ought to fall that his glory may stande.
Yet the auoyding of that errour is no sufficient cause to debarre Infantes from* 1.1 baptisme: excepte you will therein ioyne with the Anabaptistes. The outwarde sacramentall signes, are seales of Gods promises, and whosoeuer refuseth the same, shall neuer enioy the promises, and althoughe the necessitie of saluation is not so tyed to the Sacraments, that whosoeuer hathe the externall signes, shall therefore be sa∣ued, yet is it so tyed vnto them, that none can be saued, that willingly and wittingly