Calvin on the Validity of 'Romish' Baptism

By Lee, Francis Nigel, Rev., Dr.

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Title:	Calvin on the Validity of 'Romish' Baptism
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Excerpt: Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as 'Roman Catholic' baptism. Neither, for that matter, is there any such entity as 'Baptist' baptism - as if that were something different from what some might perhaps (though erroneously) call 'Presbyterian' baptism. Indeed, there is only one baptism that is validly Christian. That is Biblical baptism: the only baptism Calvin the Presbyterian upheld. Of course, Christian baptism can indeed be administered irregularly. Thus, a baby may irregularly be submerged three times - by an Anti-Protestant Greek 'Orthodox' priest. Or an adult may be baptized trinitarianly with an irregular sevenfold submersion - by a maverick, noisy & enthusiastic yet insufficiently informed Ultra-Pentecostalist. Again, a perfectly valid (though highly irregular) baptism might be performed by an immersionistic 'Plymouth Brethren' layman - or by an ordained Campbellite or 'Church of Christ' clergywoman.

Table of Contents
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