An Orthodox Catechism

    The Summe of Christian Religion (1587), Zacharias Ursinus

    Question 74

    THE SECOND PART, OF MANS DELIVERIE

    1. Are infantes to be baptised also?

      What else? for seeing they belong as well vnto the couenaunt & Church of God, as they who are of a full age; and seeing also vnto them is promised remission of sinnes by the bloude of Christ and the holy Ghost the worker of faith, as well as vnto those of full growth: They are by Baptisme to bee ingrafted into the Church of God, and to be ; ; ; discerned from the children of infidels, in like sort as in the olde Testament was done by circumcision, in place whereof is Baptisme succeeded in the new Testament.