I suggest that if your going to make base accusations regarding the English Baptist that wrote that confession you further your education by reading the Catechism that went with that confession.
I apologize to the English Baptists and this board. I am here to learn and I am learning that the differences between the Lutheran, Reformed, and Reformed Baptist views of baptism are far less than I had assumed by simply reading their bare confessions. Do modern Reformed Baptists still hold to the Catechism that accompanied the 1689 London Baptist Confession?
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Second your lack of awareness doesn't demonstrate what is being done. I suggest you ask the Reverend of the church where your worship what is the normative practice for adult catechumens Whether they are baptized once they have been confirmed. Or if they are first baptized and then confirmed after finishing the catechism course. Or perhaps you can show from the Triglot Concordia the proper method for a non-baptized adult convert.
Adults are baptized unto the Holy catholic Church not the Lutheran Church. Adults who have been instructed are confirmed into the Lutheran Church not the Holy catholic Church. Baptism is a means of grace instituted by Christ; confirmation is a rite instituted by man.
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Confirmation and Extreme Unction are rites received from the Fathers which not even the Church requires as necessary to salvation, because they do not have God's command. Therefore it is not useless to distinguish these rites from the former, which have God's express command and a clear promise of grace.
Apology to the Augsburg Confession, Of the Number and Use of the Sacraments, Concordia Triglotta
The baptismal creed is the Apostles Creed (trinitarian statement). The confirmation creed is the Book of Concord (although many Lutheran churches erroneously list only Luther's Small Catechism).
Most Lutheran pastors, for convenience sake, combine adult baptism and confirmation into one rite. IMHO, that is a mistake but not prohibited by scripture. However, if an adult who confesses the Apostles Creed were to ask for immediate baptism, it would be a gross sin for the pastor to refuse him (just as it is a gross sin for a pastor to refuse to baptize children). Pastors have been called by God to baptize not to confirm adults into the Lutheran Church or any other visible church.
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For] The Gospel assigns to those who preside over churches the command to teach the Gospel to remit sins, to administer the Sacraments and besides jurisdiction, namely, the command to excommunicate those whose crimes are known, and again to absolve those who repent.
61] And by the confession of all, even of the adversaries, it is clear that this power by divine right is common to all who preside over churches, whether they are called pastors, or elders, or bishops.
Of the Power and Jurisdiction of Bishops, Concordia Triglotta
