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Originally Posted by jpechin  The types and shadows of the old are fulfilled in the new, and I think that it is nearly unimportant who is in the visible church, in light of the invisible that has been made fully known in the new covenant. |
This does not show how baptism is to be applied to professors only.
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Originally Posted by jpechin Our desire is definitively now to save our children |
Our desire is that God would save our children just as it would have been if we were born under the Old Testament.
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Originally Posted by jpechin When I asked the OPC elders how I should consider a baby that has died after baptism but before they have displayed any fruits of repentance or faith, the answer was, "we should assume that this child is saved." |
The Canons of Dordt teach:
Article 17 - Children of Believers Who Die in Infancy
We must judge concerning the will of God from His Word, which declares that the children of believers are holy, not by nature but in virtue of the covenant of grace, in which they are included with their parents. Therefore, God-fearing parents ought not to doubt the election and salvation of their children whom God calls out of this life in their infancy (Genesis 17:7; Acts 2:39; 1 Corinthians 7:14).
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Originally Posted by jpechin To me, this contains the vestiges of popery. |
But you would be wrong to think that.