The Declaration Of Principles (3)

Redemption from sin by the blood of Christ, and the Holy Ghost, the author of faith, is promised to infants no less than to the adults. Thus the Declaration of Principles quotes from the Heidelberg Catechism, question and answer 74. Attend, please, closely to the meaning of these words, and you will surely acknowledge that the promise is not conditional and cannot possibly be. What is meant, in these words by the promise? Is it a prediction of what God will do in the future? The answer is,...