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Old 05-25-2008, 07:27 PM
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I just wanted to nail down something in my thinking. To the Presbyterian, to postpone baptism of your child until they've professed faith, as baptists do with their children, would deprive your child of what?
1. A richer understanding of the Covenant of Grace.

2. A Sacramental view of Baptism that forever grounds its surety in two immutable things over an ordinance that finds its chief significance in the inner disposition of the baptized.

3. The Proverbs and every other Scripture that is written for Covenant fathers in how they might disciple their Covenant children in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
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