shouldn’t it too be “instituted” by Christ according to the same principle as was the Lord’s Supper? Yet, it is not so prescribed. The regulative principle was a major issue to our Baptist forefathers as necessary to give biblical authority to infant baptism. This is made clear in “An Appendix” to the 1689 London Baptist Confession, first published with the confession in 1677: Therefore we cannot for our own parts be persuaded in our own minds, to build such a practice as this, upon an unwritten