Entering into God’s Covenant

Your baptism, covenant young people, is your uniform. That point we stressed in our previous article. True, it is more than that. It is also a means of grace, where­by the Holy Spirit enriches the church in her salvation in Jesus Christ, and whereby the conscious faith of the child of God is con­firmed. However, baptism is also the uniform whereby the children of believers are distinguished from those of the world. How clearly this is stated in our Heidelberg Catechism: “They (infants) must, by...