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SOJOURN IN THE NEGEB 20:1-21:34
I will give you B few, as I think, valid reasons for not
baptizing infants:
1, It is without Scriptural authority, Neither Christ
nor any one of the apostles ever commanded it.
2. It supplants believers’ baptism, which the Lord did
command.
3, It has a tendency to subvert true coversion, by
bringing persons into the church in infancy, causing them
to trust to that for salvation.
4. It deprives one of the pleasure of obedience.
5. It involves uncertainty as to having been baptized.
6. It teaches baptismal regeneration. Indeed, baptis-
mal regeneration gave rise to infant baptism.
7. It changes the order of Christ’s commission to His
apostles; their first duty according to that, was to teach,
or preach the gospel; but, according to this doctrine, their
first duty was to baptize.
8. To be baptized is an act of obedience, but an infant
can not obey an authority it knows nothing about.
9. Peter says that baptism is the answer of a good
conscience, but the infant can have no conscience in the
matter.
10. Baptism is coupled w2th repentance and faith, but
infants are incapable of either.
11. Baptism was coupled with calling on the name
of the Lord by those who were baptized, but infants can-
not do that.
12. Those baptized by divine authority gave satisfac-
tory evidence of faith, by a confession, before they were
baptized, but infants can not.
13, Infant baptism is generally employed to bring
them into the church, a place in which they are in no way
qualified to be, Church members in the days of the
apostles, first, gave heed to the apostles’ teaching; attended
to the fellowship; third, partook of the Lord’s Supper;
fourth, engaged in prayer; fifth, did not dare to wilfully
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