...— " Baptism is not to be administered to any that are not of the visible church, till they profess faith in Christ, and obedience to him ; but the infants...members of the visible church, are to be baptized." This cuts off all children whose parents are not members of the visible church, and debars them from...

...Christ, our partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's. It is not to be administered to any that are out of the...members of the visible Church are to be baptized. Baptism has come in the place and room of circumcision, the external ordinance of admission into the...

...infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized. Not to be administered to any out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ. Acts viii. 30, 37: "And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water ; and the eunuch...

...Presbyterians, both their Confession of Faith and their Larger and Shorter Catechisms declare that " the infants of such as are members of the visible Church are to be baptized." In their form of government, they utterly set themselves against the principles on which alone mixed...

...engagement to be wholly and only the Lord's.01 Q. 166. Unto whom ia baptism to be administered f A. Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible church, and so strangers from the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience...

...found in the case of one claiming baptism for himself. He is already a member of the Church, and as " the infants of such as are members of the visible Church are to be baptised," on no ground can the baptism of his child be refused, that will not justify the Church in...

...away. And then, again, the apparent discrepancy between this great principle, and the position that " the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized," is too obvious to escape the notice of any one who deliberately examines the catechism with a view...

...from those who are without ; and to oblige the "partakers of such ordinances to obedience.' " That ' Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible " Church, and so strangers to the covenant of promise, till they profess their " faith in Christ and obedience...

...away. And then, again, the apparent discrepancy between this great principle and the position, that 'the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized,' is too obvious to escape the notice of any one who deliberately examines the Catechism with a view...

...from those who are without ; and to oblige the partakers of such ordinances to obedience.' " That ' Baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible Church, and so strangers to the covenant of promise, till they profess their faith in Christ and obedience...