Infant Baptism and Sovereign Grace
Hanko defends the Reformed practice of infant baptism by grounding it in the doctrine of sovereign grace, arguing that if infants can be saved by God's electing will, they are proper subjects for the sacrament. The pamphlet refutes Baptist objections by demonstrating that Scripture does not require faith to temporally precede baptism, and that denying infant baptism logically denies the sovereignty and efficacy of God's grace in salvation.
And although our young children do not understand these things, we may not therefore exclude them from baptism, for as they are without their knowledge, partakers of the condemnation in Adam, so are they again received into grace in Christ. This passage from the Form for the Administration of Baptism used in Reformed churches very nicely sums up what we wish to show here, that is, that infant baptism is part and parcel of the doctrine of sovereign grace, and that a denial of infant baptism is...