Douglas P.
Puritan Board Freshman
How do Baptists deal with infant death?
In other words, if a members child/infant at Reformed church were to die, a pastor could use the reasoning from the Canons of Dort 1:17 to show that the child was a member of the covenant community and that they ought not doubt the election and salvation of their child and find comfort in the promises of the Lord.
Since Baptists do not see children/infants as part of the covenant community, how would a Baptist pastor go about explaining the fate of the infant to the parents?
In other words, if a members child/infant at Reformed church were to die, a pastor could use the reasoning from the Canons of Dort 1:17 to show that the child was a member of the covenant community and that they ought not doubt the election and salvation of their child and find comfort in the promises of the Lord.
Since we are to judge of the will of God from His Word, which testifies that the children of believers are holy, not by nature, but in virtue of the covenant of grace, in which they together with the parents are comprehended, godly parents ought not to doubt the election and salvation of their children whom it pleases God to call out of this life in their infancy (Gen. 17:7; Acts 2:39; I Cor. 7:14).
Since Baptists do not see children/infants as part of the covenant community, how would a Baptist pastor go about explaining the fate of the infant to the parents?