ACC ~ Titus 3 v5c

BAPTIZED THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. AMBROSE: Who is the one who is born of the Spirit and is made Spirit? It is one who is renewed in the Spirit of his mind.It is one who is regenerated by water and the Holy Spirit. We receive the hope of eternal life through the laver of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit. And elsewhere the apostle Peter says: “You shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” For who is he that is baptized with the Holy Spirit but he who is born again through water and the Holy Spirit? Therefore the Lord said of the Holy Spirit, “Truly, truly, I say to you, except a man be born again by water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” And therefore he declared that we are born of him into the kingdom of God by being born again by water and the Spirit. OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 3.10.64.

CONDEMNED UNLESS DELIVERED. AUGUSTINE: Little children alone who have performed no deeds of their own, either good or bad, will be condemned solely because of original sin, unless the grace of the Savior has freed them from it through “the laver of regeneration.” All others [are condemned], who have used their free will to add their own sins to original sin, but also for the deliberate acts of their own will. This is so unless they are delivered from the power of darkness and translated to the kingdom of Christ by the grace of God.LETTERS 215.1.1.

WHETHER WE ARE SAVED BY BAPTISM. AUGUSTINE: For if anyone should ask of me whether we have been saved by baptism, I shall not be able to deny it, since the apostle says, “He saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.” But if he should ask whether by the same washing he has already in every way immediately saved us, I shall answer: It is not so. Because the same apostle also says, “For we are saved by hope.” AGAINST TWO LETTERS OF THE PELAGIANS 3.3.5.