' But whereas our self-wise new spirits say faith alone saves ; the work, or external thing, adds nothing to it. We answer : Truly, there is nothing in us that does it but faith, as we shall also further hear. But this the blind leaders will not see, that faith must have something to believe, that is, to which it may cleave, and on which it may rest. Faith cleaves to the water, and believes that in baptism there is nothing but salvation and life ; not because of the water, but because the word and order of God are therewith incorporated, wherein his name is cleaving. Now if I believe this, what do I otherwise believe than in God, as in him who has given and planted his word therein, and offers to us this external thing, in which we may grasp this treasure ?

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