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Calvin On Acts 2:39: Against The [Ana] Baptists

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on March 31, 2016 | 3 Comments

And we must note these three degrees, that the promise was first made to the Jews, and then to their children, and last of all, that it is also to be imparted to the Gentiles. We know the reason why the Jews . . . Continue reading →

John Owen Was Not A Baptist

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  • R. Scott Clark
on April 6, 2016 | 65 Comments

Recently I had a question from a reader of the HB asking about John Owen’s view of baptism. It is sometimes implied either that he was a Baptist or became all but Baptist in his covenant theology. This is a puzzling thing . . . Continue reading →

Categorized Baptism, Covenant Theology, Paedobaptism | Tagged Covenant Theology, infant baptism, John Owen, Paedobaptism | 65 Comments

Zwingli On Sacramentarians And Infant Baptism (1529)

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  • R. Scott Clark
on April 20, 2016 | 2 Comments

Others, like the sacramentarians, (those are justly called sacramentarians, who attribute to the sacraments what they do not contain, and by high-sounding but false and made-up promises, lead men away from simple trust in the one God to belief in the power . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 105: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (1)

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on June 11, 2016 | 13 Comments
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One of the most frequent topics and questions for discussion on the Heidelblog has been this: Who should be baptized and why? To anticipate an objection: some will say that the Heidelcast should not be addressing this subject because it causes needless . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 106: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (2)

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on June 16, 2016 | 3 Comments
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This is part 2 of the series: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children. We’re talking about how to read the Scriptures, about what Scripture says about the covenant of grace, its administration, and baptism. One of the . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 110: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (6)

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on July 23, 2016
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This is episode 6 of our series: I will be a God to You and to Your Children. Last time we began looking at how types and shadows help us sort out what, in the history of redemption, is temporary and what . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 111: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (7)

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on July 28, 2016 | 5 Comments
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This is episode 7 of our series: I will be a God to You and to Your Children. For the last two episodes we have been thinking about what is temporary and what is permanent in the history of redemption. We have . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 112: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (8)

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on August 11, 2016
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This is episode 8 of our series: I will be a God to You and to Your Children. Last time we looked at circumcision, about which we saw that, just as with the bloodshed of the sacrifice of pigeons, bulls, goats, and . . . Continue reading →

Heidelcast 113: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (9)

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on August 16, 2016
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Does initiation of covenant children into the visible covenant people expire with the new covenant? Is the new covenant absolutely relatively new? Is it new relative to Abraham or new relative to Moses? These are the topics we’re investigating in this episode of the Heidelcast. Continue reading →

Heidelcast 114: I Will Be A God To You And To Your Children (10)

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on August 25, 2016
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In the last episode, in this episode and in the next, we’re looking at what Scripture says about the new covenant. We’ve looked at what Jeremiah 31:31-34 actually says, how Paul interprets it, and now we want to turn our attention to . . . Continue reading →

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

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on September 17, 2016
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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)

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on October 1, 2016
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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

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  • 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 →

Turretin Answers Objections Against Infant Baptism (1)

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

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  • 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 →

Turretin Answers Objections To Infant Baptism (5)

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  • 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)

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  • 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)

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on December 5, 2016
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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 →

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