Michael Sattler-
最初他因為擁護路德的信仰路線,先逃離奧地利逃避擁護天主教的奧地利大 帝的迫害。他到了瑞士蘇黎世,卻因為他領導主持「重浸者」的聚會,不容於慈運理(Zwengli)又離開瑞士,到了德國,信義宗的大本營,在Rottenburg住。他為「主張重浸者」起草Schleitheim Confession,之後被德國當局拘捕。在1527年5月20 日,Sattler被人用最殘忍的刑罰處決:先割了舌頭,跟住用火紅的鐵鉗把他身體的肉撕下來,最後用火燒成灰。
Sattler妻子八天后被處死,她被人給了她「第三次浸」:嬰兒時候一次,重浸一次,而最後是她被綁在Neckar River 木柱上,等河水漲,把她活活「浸 」死。 (http://www.mainstreambaptists.org/sattler.htm)
Balthasare Hubmaier-
--唯一可以(有命)完成博士學位的「主張重浸者」,他認為浸禮是一個表徵和記號(sign and symbol),代表人決意終生持守對主的信和對復活的盼望。其實, 他主要是質疑嬰兒洗禮的意義。"The meaning of this sign and symbol (baptism), the pledge of faith until death, in hope of the resurrection of life to come, is to be considered more than a sign. This meaning has nothing to do with babes, therefore infant Baptism is without validity. In baptism one pledges himself to God, in the supper to his neighbor." (Vedder, Balthasar Hubmaier, p. 108.)
瑞士改教家慈運理(Ulrich Zwengli)仍然堅持嬰兒洗禮,Balthasare Hubmaier為文力抗,他認為浸禮是代表信徒出自無虧的良知,主動接受基督去歸信神,而且需要透過他對信仰的瞭解,確信一位恩慈的神透過耶穌基督的死和復活救贖他。
"Every devout Christian who permits himself to be baptized with water should beforehand have a good conscience toward God through a complete understanding of the Word of God, that is, that knows and is sure that he has a gracious, kindly God, through the resurrection of Christ. . . . Then afterwards follows water baptism; not that through it the soul is cleansed, but the "yes" [of] a good conscience toward God, previously given inwardly by faith." (Balthasar Hubmaier: Schriften, pp. 136-37).
Balthasar Hubmaier後來在March 10, 1528, 在維也納被綁在木柱上面燒死,他妻 子就被淹死在多河。
浸信宗認為,全身沒入水裡面的浸禮,是生動和形象化的表達了浸禮的象徵意義,浸信宗認為,浸禮的儀式反映出基督徒生命有份於基督的死和復活,是向舊生命死而向新生命活,其沒入水代表和基督同死、同埋葬,而出水乃代表和將來復活的盼望。這個是根據羅馬書六3-5 的說法。同時,我們相信施浸約翰(John the Baptist)為主耶穌施浸,是全身浸的。