The Doctrine of the Church (28): The Sacrament of Baptism / The Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper

The truth, therefore, is not that the ground of infant baptism is a certain presumptive regeneration. That, first. Nor is the ground that the promise of the covenant is for all that live under the dispensation of the covenant. That, second. But, thirdly, the ground rather is that God establishes His covenant in the line of continued generations, while in those generations there are children of the promise, and, at the same time, carnal children that never receive the blessing of the promise and...