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Infant baptism [1] [2] (or paedobaptism) is the practice of baptizing infants or young children. ... from the beginning of the apostolic preaching, ...
‘A Sermon reached soon after the solemn Enterrment of Mr. William Gurnall,’ 1680, 4to (from Heb. xiii. 7). ‘An Argumentative and Practical Discourse on Infant Baptism,' 1692; reprinted 1722, 12mo (this was the substance of his Lavenham sermon, 1691 ; the preface gives a minute account of the circumstances it was answered by Benjamin Keach, of the ‘Scripture Metaphors) 1681, in ‘The ...
German Reformed liberation theologian Jürgen Moltmann, on the other hand, saw infant baptism as inappropriately associated with the national church. He saw baptism as properly a free response God's call to discipleship. [25] Reformed churches have generally maintained the practice of infant baptism despite these critiques. [26]
He heard one man preach fifteen sermons on the subject, and at the time ‘knew not a single soul who opposed infant baptism.’ But after ‘searching many authors night and day,’ he at length experienced a mystical revelation of light which lasted for three days, and felt that a ‘true repentance was wrought in’ him.
As early as 1522, it became evident that Zwingli was on a path of reform preaching when he began to question or criticize such Catholic practices as tithes, the mass, and even infant baptism. Zwingli had gathered a group of reform-minded men around him, with whom he studied classical literature and the scriptures.
In Baptism, Rebaptism, and Infant Baptism, Zwingli outlined his disagreements with both the Catholic and the Anabaptist positions. He accused the Anabaptists of adding to the word of God and noted that there is no law forbidding infant baptism. He challenged Catholics by denying that the water of baptism can have the power to wash away sin ...
Affusion became the standard practice in the western church around the 10th century, [6] but was in use much earlier. The earliest explicit reference to baptism by affusion occurs in the Didache (c. AD 100), the seventh chapter of which gives instructions on how to baptize, which include affusion:
William Wall (6 January 1647 – 13 November 1728) was a British priest in the Church of England who wrote extensively on the doctrine of infant baptism.He was generally an apologist for the English church and sought to maintain peace between it and the Anabaptists.