_The Confession of Faith:
             Which Was Submitted to His Imperial Majesty Charles V
                  At the Diet of Augsburg in the Year 1530_.
                        by Philip Melanchthon, 1497-1560
                   Translated by F. Bente and  W. H. T. Dau
                                 Published in:
                   _Triglot Concordia: The Symbolical Books
                         of the Ev. Lutheran Church_.
           (St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1921), pp. 37-95.


        Article IX: Of Baptism.  
         
        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.  
        

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