Heidelcast 115: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (11)

Heidelcast

on September 10, 2016 | 3 Comments

In this episode we see that the benefits of the New Covenant are the benefits of the covenant of grace. There are some who see a strong discontinuity between the promises made to Abraham and the new covenant promised Jeremiah 31. There . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 116: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (12)

Heidelcast

on September 17, 2016

We are just about ready to immerse ourselves, as it were, in the question of baptism but we have at least one more thing to discuss before we get to baptism and that is this: what is baptism? In the Reformed tradition, . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 118: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (13)

Heidelcast

on October 1, 2016

With this episode now we dive into the question of baptism itself. So far we have been setting the stage because, from the historic, confessional Reformed point of view, the debate about infant baptism is really a debate about how to understand . . . Continue reading →

Hodge: Abraham Was In A Spiritual, Gracious Covenant

R. Scott Clark

on October 16, 2016 | 16 Comments

Although the Church existed from the beginning, it was, before the calling of Abraham, for the most part in a state of dispersion. Too little is recorded of it, prior to that event, to give us definite knowledge of its nature and . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 119: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (14)

Heidelcast

on November 20, 2016

This series has really been about how to interpret Scripture. Christians study the same Bible, but we often read it differently. Sometimes we begin with different assumptions about the nature of things and authority. These different methods and starting points lead to . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections Against Infant Baptism (1)

R. Scott Clark

on November 22, 2016 | 15 Comments

IV. Nor ought it to be objected that Christ puts instruction before baptism and so speaks of adults, who can be instructed, and not of infants (“teach [μαθητεύσατε],” he says). Although Christ placed teaching before baptism, this must be referred to the . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections Against Infant Baptism (2)

R. Scott Clark

on November 23, 2016 | 2 Comments

VI. To no purpose is the reply: (1) “Hence it would follow that the Lord’s Supper should also be administered to infants because the thing signified belongs to them.” Although the same thing is signified in both, still there is a difference . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections Against Infant Baptism (3)

R. Scott Clark

on November 27, 2016 | 2 Comments

VII. (3) By parity, the necessity of baptism is the same as that of circumcision. Now circumcision was to be administered to infants according to the command of God. Therefore also infant baptism. The truth of the major is proved (a) because . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (4)

R. Scott Clark

on November 28, 2016 | 5 Comments

IX. (5) Because the children of believers are holy; therefore they ought to be baptized. For since they have the thing signified, they cannot and ought not to be deprived of the sign (Acts 10:47). “The unbelieving wife,” says the apostle, “is . . . Continue reading →

Circumcision Was Always About The Necessity Of Regeneration

R. Scott Clark

on November 29, 2016 | 5 Comments

HB reader Allan writes, The NT apostolic doctrine is that OT circumcision of the flesh is replaced by NT circumcision of the heart. I have not found them saying it is replaced by baptism. Allan, Circumcision was always a sign of what . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (5)

R. Scott Clark

on November 30, 2016 | 12 Comments

XI. (7) Because the fathers acknowledged the necessity of infant baptism and approved its propriety by their practice. Justin Martyr mentions it (“Quaestiones et Responsiones ad Orthodoxos,” Q. 56 in Opera quae feruntur omnia [ed. J.C.T. de Otto, 1881], v. 3, Pt. . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (6)

R. Scott Clark

on December 3, 2016

XII. There was no need that a particular precept concerning the baptism of infants should be given because it was known to the disciples that infants were circumcised. It therefore sufficed that there was a general command to baptize all nations, under . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 121: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (15)

Heidelcast

on December 5, 2016

This is the 15th and final episode of our series, “I Will Be A God to You And to Your Children.” If you are just finding us, the series starts at episode 105. As we wrap up the series it seemed to . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (7)

R. Scott Clark

on December 10, 2016

XVIII. The cause of infant baptism is not the actual faith of infants, of which they are no more capable than of that instruction by which the disciples of Christ are taught (Mt. 28:19). But it is both the universal command to . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (8)

R. Scott Clark

on December 14, 2016 | 8 Comments

XXI. Baptism (with respect to true believers) seals saving grace because it is connected with the internal baptism of the Spirit. But with respect to hypocrites, it does not have the accompanying grace of the Spirit, but is only a badge of . . . Continue reading →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (9)

R. Scott Clark

on December 16, 2016 | 3 Comments

XXVI. What is said by some (“Infants are baptized in the faith of their parents”) does not mean that what is in adults is imputed to infants or answers for infants; both because each one lives by his own faith and because . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (2)

R. Scott Clark

on December 20, 2016 | 1 Comment

II. By the state of innocence, we mean the first condition of man created after the image of God in internal goodness and external happiness. As it abounded in all goods (of the body as well as of the soul) necessary for . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (3)

R. Scott Clark

on December 21, 2016

IV. Liberty is fourfold: (1) the liberty of independence which belongs to God as the first being; this is opposed to the necessity of dependence which belongs to all creatures. (2) Liberty from coaction by which man acts spontaneously and with freedom; . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (9)

R. Scott Clark

on January 7, 2017

IX. Although natural liberty agrees in essentials with the liberty of man constituted in other states, still it differs greatly in accidentals. For the liberty of glory in blessedness is not to be able to sin (non posse peccare). The liberty of . . . Continue reading →

Turretin On The Covenant Of Nature (11)

R. Scott Clark

on January 31, 2017

IX. Although faith in Christ is not prescribed specifically and expressly in the law (which does not know Christ), still it is contained in it generically and implicitly (inasmuch as the law commands us to believe every word of God and all . . . Continue reading →

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