Martin Luther Teaching that Baptism is a Work of God, not a Work of Man, in his Lectures on John

  

At other times the stress is upon the validity and inherent worth of the sacrament, even where faith is absent. The basis of this validity is the fact that God is the active subject of baptism: “God is actively at work in baptism without regard to my work or yours.” (WA 46,608,10f. = LW 22,175 on John 1:32-34) (Jonathan D. Trigg, “Baptism in the theology of Martin Luther simper ES in Motu Et initio” [PhD thesis; University of Durham, 1991], 143)