The Anglican Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism Quotes

“For God had made it clear to Abraham that ‘your offspring’ was not to be taken to mean ‘children after they have grown to years of discretion and have decided for themselves’, but specifically was defined as the eight-day-old infant.[24] The sign marks the recipient of the covenant promises. God’s promise embraces the parent and his child, and it is the obedience of the covenant parent to pass on and confer the sign to the child.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Anglican Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism

“Article 27 begins by speaking of baptism, without any reference to the age of the candidate. Its concluding sentence affirms that the baptism of young children is in anywise to be retained as conformable to the mind of Christ in the matter. There is no suggestion that the baptism mentioned in the last sentence is any different from that which is defined at the beginning. Rather the inference would be that the subject is the same throughout, and that, doctrinally, the age of the candidate is a matter of indifference.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Anglican Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism

“the Book of Common Prayer says what Scripture says. It uses the same straightforward, radical, striking language as Scripture does, in associating the blessings with baptism; and then, like Scripture, it proceeds to insist that the outward signs are conditionally efficacious, being moral instruments of spiritual benefit.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Anglican Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism

“The outward signs proclaimed one thing to them, but found no response in their hearts, and no reflection in their lives. They”
― John R.W. Stott, The Anglican Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism

“In baptism, therefore, we are dealing with a covenant ordinance, a movement of grace which reaches out from God to men; and when we speak of the baptismal sign we mean the donation by God, through his ministers, of the mark of the New Covenant.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Anglican Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism

“That is to say, the sacraments express a movement of grace which begins in God and reaches out to man.”
― John R.W. Stott, The Anglican Evangelical Doctrine of Infant Baptism