Baptismal Regeneration in the Confession of Faith by Peter Abelard (1079-1142)

  

I also declare that in baptism all offences are remitted, and that we need grace whereby we may begin on good and persevere in it, and that having lapsed we may be restored through penitence. (“Abelard’s Confession of Faith,” in The Letters of Abelard and Heloise [rev ed.; trans. M. T. Clanchy; Penguin Books, 2003], 212)