3.24.2005

Sadler on Covenant Consistency

“It must ever be borne in mind that Christianity was by no means a new religion … It was a fundamental principle of the Old Covenant that children should be admitted to its privileges … If there was to be a difference between the Old Covenant and that which superseded it, with regard to what was in the Old Covenant so fundamental a point, we should certainly have heard of it…

Now, if the children of Christians were debarred from receiving Baptism in unconscious infancy, and seeing that they must be admitted into the Church at some time, we should have expected some regulation respecting the age and the amount of consciousness of Christian truth which was indispensable in their case.” - Reverend M.F. Sadler, The Second Adam & The New Birth

Whenever I hear reference to a paedobaptist having insufficient Scriptural basis for the position, I want to make this point and declare that the insufficient grounds belong to those who would contradict the inclusion of infants in the Covenant.

In case you've missed it, I heartily endorse Sadler's book. You can purchase it here or here.

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