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You need to update your Signature per the board requirements.
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I was careful to do that before my first post.
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I would not presume to be so "smug" about what is and isn't denied according the the Confessions here. . .
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Sorry. I didn't mean to be smug.
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In other words, the grace that is promised in the sign may be conferred at a later time.
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Or, the point may be that the regeneration first initiated in baptism continues for the entirety of the Christian life. That's what Burgess clearly taught. And he apparently though he had the backing of other divines (John Calvin included) and the other reformed confessions of his time.
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The Confessions do not teach that, for the Elect, regeneration is annexed to Baptism.
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Wouldn't it have been a lot easier to just say that then? It says no such thing. Rather, the wording implies the opposite when it says that grace and salvation are not
inseparably annex unto baptism. Annexed unto--yes; Inseparably annexed unto--no. In other words, God has appointed baptism as his ordinary instrument of initial regeneration, but he himself is not tied to it but free to work how and when he pleases.