Note 1720 — Chapter XXVIII · (continued 3)

To Melanchthon from the Wartburg, Jan. 13, 1522, “Briefwechsel,” 3, p. 273 f. Because reason is “diametrically opposed to faith” and gleams only like “a smudge on a lantern” (p. 156), people, so he says, “would believe better were they a little less reasonable” (p. 162). But “even though it were true, which it is not,” and even were we to allow that infants do not believe at all, are without reason and cannot grasp the Word of God, would their baptism therefore “be wrong”? Even then it would have its value.