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This volume presents John Spilsbury’s apologetic work on baptism. Spilsbury argues against the theology of paedobaptism, stating “that the spirituality of the new covenant in Christ eliminated the possibility of an infant’s participation in it.” The text examines the covenant God made with Abraham and his descendants, and suggests that “the covenant, and not baptism, forms the church, and the...

believing as their father Abraham did, and not else. In respect of which, the Covenant is the same to the one as it is to the other. This in a sense I confess is a truth, that none are accounted children of Abraham, but onely as they believe as their father Abraham did: and if this be true, as the ground affirms it is, then let the Reader judge, how infants can be said to be the children of Abraham, and in the Covenant, and so to have right to Baptism, as the seal to confirm their faith, and whether
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