proof, as it is called, is with those who withhold the Sacrament. Will it be said that infants are not properly qualified for Baptism? How is this an objection? Consider the text.—“Except one be born of water and the Spirit,” says our Lord, “he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” There is nothing said about qualifications or conditions here which might exclude infants from Baptism,—nothing about the necessity of previous faith, or previous good works, in order to fit us for the mercy of God. Nor