Presumptive Regeneration, or, the Baptismal Regeneration of Elect Infants

by Cornelius Burges

But yet well knowing that it is otherwise with us that were baptized in our infancy, he presently remembers a place of Saint Augustine touching on the baptism of infants,[211] Ad hoc baptisma valet, “To this availeth baptism, that men being baptized may be incorporated into Christ and made his members.”“ Now this must necessarily be meant of such as are baptized in infancy, or else it were directly contrary to his own assertion immediately preceding, in which he says that some are, “incorporated by faith,” and that, “incorporation is assured them afterwards in baptism:” and then produces this of Augustine, which affirms us by baptism, “to be incorporated into Jesus Christ.”