As for Bavinck, although he does not always mention Kuyper by name, he clearly opposed his predecessor’s doctrine of presupposed regeneration as the ground of baptism. The right to baptism, for both adults and children, is derived from the covenant of grace, to which they are parties. “Not regeneration, faith, or repentance, much less our assumptions pertaining to them, but only the covenant of grace” forms the ground for baptism. There is “no other, deeper, or more solid ground” for baptism.72 This does not preclude, however, that covenant infants can possess “the disposition (habitus) of
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