Can the outward sign save them; or make them more certain or more capable of salvation than they were before, so long as they remain void of faith? Would it not be as good to defer their baptism until they are of years; as to offer them to baptism in infancy, which does them no more good, than it does to a reprobate, until their actual conversion? To say that baptism admits them to the outward means, is to say nothing to the actual purpose. For, ask these men, what is it that makes a person capable of the inward grace of baptism. They will answer; faith. But how is this faith worked in them?
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