The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology: A Comparison Between Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptist and Paedobaptist Federalism

by Pascal Denault

it is undeniable that the paedobaptists practised paedobaptism on the basis of a covenant where baptism did not exist.142 The only reason that explains this hermeneutic—questionable to the Baptists—is the Presbyterian model of the covenant of grace.