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Synopsis
Excerpt from Infant Baptism: Its Nature and Objects
The commonly received doctrine of the Reformed Churches, as to the nature and object of baptism, is concisely and comprehensively stated in our Shorter Catechism Baptism is a sacrament wherein the washing with water in the name of the Father, and Of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engage ment to be the Lord's. This definition, put into the mouth of a believer, is evidently intended to include infant baptism; and we will best attain the end of our present investigation, by examining the place which is here assigned to it, by inquiring to what extent, or in what sense, the representation here given of this ordinance as a Sign and seal harmonises with the view which Scripture warrants us to take of baptism as administered to infants.
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