[10] Gregory of Tours, _Hist. Franc._ ii. 31: 'To whom (Chlovis) as he enters the font to be baptized, the holy man of God (Remigius) thus eloquently spoke--"Meekly bow thy neck, Sigambrian: adore what thou hast burnt; burn what thou hast adored."' [11] Baptism by 'affusion' began within the first century, but as the exception, not the rule. See app. note F. [12] By infant baptism under right conditions, I mean the baptism of infants when there is some real security provided, through their parents or proper sponsors, for their Christian education, according to the intention of the Church. On the primitive origin of infant baptism, see _Ephesians_, pp. 230, 231. [13] 'Stirb und werde! Denn so lang du das nicht hast, Bist du nur ein trüber Gast Auf der dunkeln Erde' (quoted by M. Arnold). [14] John vi. 53-58; xiv. 19, 20; xv. 1-10; xvii. 21-23. [15] P. 81 (2nd ed.): 'The three essential terms of Pauline theology are not, therefore, as popular theology makes them--_calling, justification, sanctification_: they are rather these--_dying with Christ, resurrection from the dead, growing into Christ_.' Cf. p. 76: 'How did Paul's faith, working through love, help him [to control appetite and self-will]? It enabled him to reinforce duty by affection. In the central need of his nature, the desire to govern these motives of unrighteousness, it enabled him to say: _Die to them_! _Christ did_. If any man be in Christ, said St. Paul--that is, if any man identifies himself with Christ by attachment, so that he enters into His feelings and lives with His life--he is a new creature; he can do, and does, what Christ did.' It would be truer, surely, to say in the first of these two passages not 'the three _essential_,' &c., but 'the three _central_.' Nothing can be more truly essential to Pauline theology than the terms, calling, justification, atonement; but the two last of them at least do not belong to the central region of religion, but have to do with the removal of preliminary obstacles to our entrance upon it. [16] The apparent exception is John x. 18; but even there the word rendered 'take' would perhaps be better rendered 'receive.' Christ had the right to lay down His own life and the right to receive it again from the Father. So Hort, _First Ep. of Peter_, pp. 34, 84. [17] Luke xvi. 9. [18] 1 Cor. ix. 27. {226} DIVISION III. § 4. CHAPTER VI. 15-23. _The perfect freedom is God's service._