Paedobaptism Demands Parental Instruction and Ecclesiastical Keys

Children and young people must expect it. Parents and consistories must insist on it. Instruction and discipline by parents and by the church must follow the administration of the sacrament of baptism to the infant children of professing believers. Instruction and discipline are a necessary part of the concept of infant baptism. The infant children of believers also must be baptized because God graciously promises to gather in generations (Gen. 17:7; Acts 2:39). But a charge has been brought...