Our conclusion, that in the Gentile Church (we have no information about the Jewish Christian Church) children born in the fellowship were baptized as early as the first century, receives confirmation from different sides. 1. We hear in the history of the early Church nothing about two kinds of Christians, baptized and unbaptized;1 had baptism been withheld from children born to Christian parents, then there would very soon have grown up a mixed crowd of baptized
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