Anthony

First of all, thankyou for that interesting part of history concerning the "half way covenant". Although I think I heard of it before; I don't remember discussing it before.

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You can attempt to raise your child “Christian” but will he/she be counted thus? Did God adopt him/her?

I take comfort in the fact that not one of the elect with go to hell. Who is elect is not my responsibility. I just need to be obedient to the Scriptures and in the case of bringing up children, that obedience means training them up in the Lord. Although Proverbs are not absolute promises, they are general truths. Proverbs 22:6 is comforting. "Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it."

The rest is up to the Lord.


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Baptists are probably convicted by these grey areas surrounding infant baptism. If we can’t even consider a baptized youngin’ a Christian yet part of the outward covenant of grace have we erred somehow in the administration of this sacrament?

Among Calvinistic Baptists, there are basically two views, lets call them the Dispensational Baptist view of baptism and the Covenant Baptist view held by those who adhere to the 1689 LBCF, sometimes called 1689 Federalism, which was held by the writers of the 1689 LBCF such as the person that is believed to be the editor of the 1689 LBCF 'Nehemiah Coxe.
I don't want to elaborate on that too much here at the moment, but there is a difference. If you would like to know more about the differences, I recommend the following link.
https://www.1689federalism.com/?msclkid=64b44307b95a11ecbb7ca383c927f80d

Secondly, the second part of your quote has more to do with those who are Paedo-Baptists. People like Pilgrim, John Gerstner and Jonathon Edwards, who were against "presumptive regeneration".

Tom

Last edited by Tom; Mon Apr 11, 2022 1:52 AM.