Instead, Burgess will show that we baptize based on God’s promise, as well as the nature of baptism explained in the word of God. Infants are to be considered, or presumed, Christians in this light. Why are infants of believing parents to be considered Christians? Based on the command and promise of God, they are to be distinguished from the visible world, and are united with believers in the church, being federally holy before God and marked by the covenant signs of circumcision (as in the case of the patriarchs and Israelites looking for the Messiah) or of baptism (as in the case of the
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