They rejected paedobaptism based on more than an analysis of the practice of baptism in the New Testament and the fact that no examples of child baptism are found there. This type of argument—regulatory principle, definition of baptism in the New Testament, etc.—was of secondary importance in Baptist apologetics. The debate surrounding baptism involved more than simply sacramental practice. It was a debate about the structure of the Scriptures, the meaning and nature of the different covenants that God made with man, and the continuity and discontinuity in the revelation and carrying out of
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