Chief Articles of Faith
Article IX. Of Baptism
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Of Baptism they teach that it is necessary to salvation, and that through Baptism is offered the grace of God, and that children are to be baptized who, being offered to God through Baptism are received into God's grace.
They condemn the Anabaptists, who reject the baptism of children, and say that children are saved without Baptism.
Philip Melanchthon, The Augsburg Confession (1530), in the translation of the Triglot Concordia (1921). Public domain. Text from Project Gutenberg (eBook #275).