A winsome and succinct summary of why some professing Christians apply the covenant sign of baptism to their children from Kevin DeYoung. His conclusion: …we come to administer the sacrament of baptism to this child today with the weight of church history to encourage us and the example of redemptive history to confirm our practice. …

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Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 31 Chapter 19 – Of the Law of God (Cont.) (Paragraphs 3-5) III. Besides this law, commonly called moral, God was pleased to give to the people of Israel, as a Church under age, ceremonial laws, containing several typical ordinances, partly of worship, prefiguring Christ, his graces, actions, …

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Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 30 Chapter 19 – Of the Law of God (Paragraphs 1-2) I. God gave to Adam a law, as a covenant of works, by which he bound him and all his posterity to personal, entire, exact, and perpetual obedience; promised life upon the fulfilling, and threatened death upon …

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