And again : ' Therefore, both happens in baptism, that the body is sprinkled, which can receive no more than the water, and the word spoken thereto, which the soul may receive. Now because both the water and the word are one baptism, therefore both body and soul must be saved, and live eternally : the soul through the word, in which it believes ; but the body, because it is united with the soul, and also, in the manner it is capable, receives baptism.

' Hence we can, both with respect to our bodies and souls, have no greater treasure ; for thereby we become very holy and happy."

Thus far Luther.

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