#credobaptism

I joined in an interesting discussion on Facebook recently.  Someone was suggesting that the term “credobaptist” was meaningless and inaccurate it didn’t properly describe the Baptist position and didn’t really distinguish so called “credobaptists” from “paedobatpists”.  They offered their own alternative. A little, though not completely tongue in cheek, I suggested that they stick with…

One of the weirdest arguments for paedobaptism has become quite prominent in recent times.  It goes like this. Credobaptists (those who advocate for believer’s baptism) argue that the Bible doesn’t instruct us to baptise infants, therefore paedobaptists are arguing from silence.  However, this assumes that the burden of proof is on the paedobaptist to prove that we should baptise babies. …

May I appeal to persons who, although Baptists in principle, are yet members of Pedobaptist churches?

May I, in the second place, appeal to persons who, although Baptists in principle, are yet members of Pedobaptist churches? This class of persons is much more numerous than has generally been imagined. Many of them are not themselves fully aware that they approximate our principles. They have derived all their knowledge of them through Pedobaptist channels, and such have been the representations…

Does infant baptism do no harm?

Does infant baptism do no harm? I persuade myself that no one who reads these pages, will ever again urge that fallacious plea. Every departure from truth must be an evil, and this is one of the most melancholy of them all. Will you not, my brother, ascertain for yourself, its character, and renouncing it, return cheerfully to the word of God? It is “a perfect rule of faith and practice.” If you,…

Address to Pedobaptist brethren

In closing this discussion, may I not, in the first place, address a few words to my Pedobaptist brethren? Will you not here pause, and with the Bible in your hand, prayerfully re-examine this whole subject? You have probably never, at any time, given it a careful investigation. You found it in your Church, and feeling, very naturally, a prejudice in favor of whatever she approves, and observes,…

Recapitulation

CHAPTER 20 RECAPITULATION, WITH CONCLUDING ADDRESSES Recapitulation; addresses to Pedobaptists; to Baptists in Pedobaptist churches; to Baptists. THE evils of infant baptism have now, in most of their forms, passed successively in review. They have been considered calmly, dispassionately, but faithfully, and as demanded by the truth of our Lord Jesus Christ. If I have “nothing extenuated,”…

It must now, I think, be evident that infant baptism is the most pernicious heresy that has ever found its way into the church of Christ

It must now, I think, be evident that infant baptism is the most pernicious heresy that has ever found its way into the church of Christ. Are there still those who think it a small matter? Say you that it cannot be so very iniquitous? You are perhaps willing to admit that, “It does no good.” Do you yet claim that it “does no harm?” You are, I trust, undeceived You now see that it is really the…

Thus it is seen how infant baptism retards the designs of Christ in the conversion of the world

Thus it is seen how infant baptism retards the designs of Christ in the conversion of the world, by enfeebling, through her own errors and worldliness, the church herself; by placing Baptists and Pedobaptists in perpetual conflict with each other; by diverting from the work the time, the talents, the learning, and the money of the church; by detaining large numbers of ministers from the foreign…