A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §454 · Samuel Strimesius

Annotatio III §.IX: ENIM partly aetiological, partly promissive — baptism parallel (Mark 16:16)

ENIM is partly aetiological — why what was offered was to be eaten and drunk.

Partly promissive — like Baptism’s own promise: whoever believes and is baptized shall be saved.

Latin

Ceu ætiologica partim, rationem reddente, quare illud, quòd porrigebatur, edendum bibendumque fuerit, partim promissiva, quòd promissio omni Sacramento propria, in Baptismate disertis his verbis expressa legatur: Quicunque crediderit & baptizatus fuerit, salvabitur.

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