The Antiquity of Infant & Household Baptisms

"We also who by Him have had access to God, have not received this carnal circumcision, but the spiritual circumcision, which Enoch, and those like him observed. And we have received it by baptism, by the mercy of God, because we were sinners: and it is enjoined to all persons to receive it by the same way." (Justin Martyr: writing in approx. 135-140 AD. Dialogue with Trypho p. 59 Edit. Stephens 1551) (Cf Wall Op.cit. Vol. 1 ch. 2: sect. 2). It is plain that this most ancient Father does not...