Slaughtering Baptists? (1)

In the "Letters" column of this issue of The Standard Bearer, Baptist Pastor William Oosterman objects to my editorial on the Reformed doctrine of the covenant (The SB, April 15, 1990, "The Covenant of God and the Children of Believers"). Specifically he objects to the criticism of the Baptist position that is inherent in the covenant-doctrine of the Reformed faith. Pastor Oosterman is careless with history. He charges that my spiritual ancestors in the 16th century slaughtered Baptists,...