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The Baptism of Disciples Alone: A Covenantal Argument for Credobaptism versus Paedobaptism is unavailable, but you can change that!

Expanded from Fred Malone’s earlier work, A String of Pearls Unstrung, this text offers a covenantal argument for credobaptism versus paedobaptism. In this thorough study on baptism, Malone offers a helpful analysis and summation of the Baptist position that the Bible authorizes only credobaptism—the baptism of disciples alone.

if the case for paedobaptism were potentially plausible, it still is unwise to form a doctrine of an instituted sacrament by inference alone when never mentioned or expressly set down in Scripture. Inference, even if one concludes it good and necessary, cannot be used to invent sacraments or subjects of sacraments, as do the Roman Catholics. There is a limit to valid good and necessary consequence, especially regarding the positive institution of sacraments under the regulative principle. Further,
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