"Improve the baptism of your children as an obligation and encouragement unto you, parents, to endeavor the salvation of your baptized little ones. Of your children, you may say, with Jacob in Genesis 33:5, 'These are the children that God hath graciously given to me.' And will you not heartily give back to God those children once again? Their baptism is to be the sign and seal of your doing so. You generally bring your infant children unto the baptism of the Lord. I suppose you do so because you are satisfied that the children of believers were in covenant with God in the days of the Old Testament, and that the children of believers then had a right unto the initial seal of the covenant, and that in the days of the New Testament they have not lost this privilege. Well, but when you bring your children to the sacred baptism, what is it for? Oh, do not let it be done as an empty formality, as if the baptism of your children were for nothing but to formally and pompously put
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