Commenting on Rom 6:4, one source wrote the following about water baptism:
Let us know, that the Apostle does
not simply exhort us to imitate Christ, as though he had said that the death of
Christ is a pattern which all Christians are to follow; for no doubt he ascends
higher, as he announces a doctrine, with which he connects, as it is evident,
an exhortation; and his doctrine is this—that the death of Christ is
efficacious to destroy and demolish the depravity of our flesh, and his
resurrection, to effect the renovation of a better nature, and that by
baptism we are admitted into a participation of this grace.
Who would say such a heretical thing? A Catholic theologian?
Lutheran pastor? Irish Latter-day Saint apologist and blogger?
No, it was John Calvin in his commentary on Romans.