Holy Baptism: Sign of God’s Unconditional Covenant (2)

God's everlasting covenant is a covenant of irresistible, particular grace. Therefore baptism, the sign of the covenant, must be a sign and seal of this irresistible grace. Many, however, reject this truth, and instead teach a conditional covenant of resistible, common grace. Whether this is said to be a condition to get into the covenant or to stay in the covenant, either way it amounts to teaching that God's grace is resistible, and that the salvation of God's people depends on something that...