Reformed Church Of Basel (1534): The Denial Of Infant Baptism A “Damnable And Depraved Opinion”

We clearly protest those strange and erroneous doctrines, which turbulent spirits have invented [so as] to reject and condemn, among other damnable and depraved opinions, as when they say infants are too small to be baptized (whom we baptize according to the custom of the apostles and the early church [Acts 2:38, 39; 16:33; 1 Cor. 1:16], and because baptism has replaced circumcision [Col. 2:11, 12]).

James T. Dennison Jr. ed., Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation: 1523–1693, vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2008–14), 295.


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