Conclusions Drawn from this Biblical Evidence

In this part of the sermon: Martin quotes prominent paedobaptist theologians (Hodge, Berkhoff, Warfield) who admit that infant baptism is not explicitly commanded or exemplified in the New Testament, but…

Martin quotes Charles Hodge from 'Systematic Theology' to show that paedobaptists acknowledge that adult baptism requires a profession of faith and that infant baptism needs a different justification, often from the doctrine of the church.

Rather, it must be deduced from good and necessary inference arising from the unity of the covenants, specifically the Abrahamic covenant, the unity of the church. So, let me just quote from some men that would indicate that this is the case. First of all, from Hodge in Systematic Theology, page 540 and following. The question,

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In this part of the sermon: Martin quotes prominent paedobaptist theologians (Hodge, Berkhoff, Warfield) who admit that infant baptism is not explicitly commanded or exemplified in the New Testament, but…

Martin quotes Louis Berkhoff from 'Systematic Theology' to demonstrate that paedobaptists admit there is no explicit command or instance of infant baptism in the New Testament, but derive it from the Abrahamic covenant.

And here he begins to deal with the scriptural basis for infant baptism on page 632. He makes the following statement. It may be said at the outset that there is no explicit command in the Bible to baptize children, that there is not a single instance in which we are plainly told that children were baptized. But this does not necessarily mean that we are not baptized.

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Driving home: It is true that there is no express command to baptize infants in the New Testament, no express record of the baptism of infants, and no passages so stringently implying it that we must infer from them that infants were …

Martin quotes B.B. Warfield from 'Studies in Theology' to further illustrate that prominent paedobaptists concede the absence of direct New Testament warrant for infant baptism, grounding it instead in the Old Testament and the continuity of the Church.

Warfield. Warfield. Warfield in Studies in Theology on the Polemics of Infant Baptism, page 399, says,

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In this part of the sermon: Martin argues that Scripture provides no alternate or different direction for baptizing those nurtured in the covenant community from birth, implying they too are subject to…

Martin quotes Dr. Wall's 'History of Infant Baptism' to support the claim that the Great Commission gives no particular direction for what to do with the children of converts, reinforcing the idea that no alternate instruction exists.

No alternate, separate, additional, or different direction is recorded in scripture as to what to do in the case of those who have been nurtured in the covenant community. community from birth. You don't find it. Now, I would like to quote from Watson, page 29, in which Dr. Wall, in his famous history of infant baptism, makes this admission,

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In this part of the sermon: Martin refutes the paedobaptist argument that there are no examples of children of Christian parents being baptized as adults, by turning their own argument for the unity of the…

Martin quotes James Bannerman from 'The Church of Christ' where Bannerman challenges Baptists to provide an explicit precept or precedent for baptizing the child of a church member when they reach adulthood, which Martin then refutes by using Bannerman's own arguments for the unity of the church and covenants.

Now, he's attempting to get us on our own principles. This is what he says. Third, in reply to the objection against infancy, drawn from the absence of any separate authority for the practice, it might be enough to challenge the anti-patal Baptist, he won't call us Baptists, upon his own principles to prove his own practice to be scriptural and show an explicit precept or a precedent for baptizing the child of a church member, not along with the parent in his infancy, but afterwards when the child has grown to manhood. The inspired history of the Christian church

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Driving home: What does it do for them? We don't know. What are we denying them then, brethren? You don't know.

Martin quotes William Cunningham from 'Historical Theology' to highlight that while the effects of disciple baptism are clear, paedobaptists themselves admit they cannot give a definite account of how infant baptism individually affects infants regarding justification and regeneration, thus questioning what is truly being denied to children by Baptists.

It is also a privilege. Now, I would like to say, which is the greater privilege to deny your children, infant sprinkling or disciple baptism? Now, I'll quote from Cunningham, and I have it written out here, in Historical Theology, Volume 2, page 150. Now, here's what he says.

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