Calvin does not view it so much as a channel of Divine grace as a rite for profession of faith and solemn prayer, and as such would have confirmation continued as a necessary complement of infant baptism.
Do they not justify the practice of infant baptism?
Instances of this kind are not to be considered as conclusively proving the Scripture authority of infant baptism of themselves; but they form a presumptive argument, in its favor, of great weight.
A second argument in favor of infant baptism is derived from the repeated accounts, in the Acts, of the baptism of whole families.
As Augustine says in his book on Infant Baptism (De Pecc.
I answer that, As Augustine says in the book on Infant Baptism (De Pecc.
Wherefore Augustine says in his book on Infant Baptism (De Pecc.
Wall, Author of the History of Infant Baptism, and Vicar of Shoreham in Kent.
When the period arrived for taking my Bachelors degree, it was requisite again to sign the 39 Articles, and I now found myself embarrassed by the question of Infant Baptism.
Footnote 1: It was not until many years later that I became aware, that unbiased ecclesiastical historians, as Neander and others, while approving of the practice of Infant Baptism, freely concede that it is not apostolic.
In the matter of the Sabbath and of the Mosaic Law, of Infant Baptism, of Episcopacy, of the doctrine of the Lord's return, I had successively found the prevalent Protestantism to be unapostolic.
And is there any way of avoiding its injurious influence on the world, and regaining the benefit of the ordinance to the church, but by following up the principles of the New Testament, and abandoning the practice of infant baptism?
Has not the practice of infant baptism, in all ages of the church, been a pernicious source of delusion?
Infant baptism must, therefore, have been an institution of the age of the apostles.
He affirms, not only that the practice of infant baptism prevailed in his own age, but that it had been handed down as an ecclesiastical ordinance from the first century.
The only writer of the first three centuries who questions the propriety of infant baptismis Tertullian.
One of the most general is that of Infant Baptism.
There is not a case recorded in the New Testament of infant baptism.
Nowhere since the ordinance of baptism was instituted have we a commandment to baptize infants, and nowhere in all the evangelistic work of the apostles is there an instance of infant baptism recorded.
We are aware that there are many who teach “infant baptism,” and use a few texts of Scripture and by their misapplication make it look as plausible as possible.
There is nothing in the scriptures which authorizes the doctrine of infant baptism.
But this position does not help out the doctrine of infant baptism.
Read almost any modern book against infant baptism, and you will find that its main force is directed against the practice as a "church and state" institution, and as making persons members of the church by means of sacraments.
Infant baptism, though not universally adopted, was yet in theory almost universally admitted to be proper.
Sprinkling was still confined to Baptismus Clinicorum and was first generally used in the West in infant baptism in the 12th century, while the East still retained the custom of immersion.
The sponsors or anadochi, who, after the introduction ofinfant baptism came to be called god-fathers and god-mothers, were really in a spiritual relation to the children they took up out of the font.
But their most radical doctrine was the rejection of infant baptism as unscriptural.
Heinrich Roll, a fugitive from Juelich who sought refuge in Muenster, convinced Rothmann of the unlawfulness of infant baptism.
Their rejection of infant baptism he regarded as one of those blasphemies which ought to be punished by death; the denial of original sin and the theory that the Sacraments were merely signs he looked upon as similar blasphemies.
Real Presence of Christ in the Supper), their iconoclasm, and, thirdly, their repudiation of infant baptism.
Footnote 8: Lightfoot and Wall use this strong argument for the lawfulness and implied duty of Infant Baptism in the Christian Church.
I am myself friendly to Infant Baptism, but for that reason feel more impatience of any unfairness in its defenders.
An apologie for our publick ministerie and infant baptism, by William Lyford, B.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "infant baptism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
