An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 13. 10. The commonest Opinion among the English Calvinists, is, That God hath made no certain Promise of the Salvation of any particular Infant, but by his general Promise of mercy to the Seed of the Faithful, hath given us cause to hope that more of them than of others, shall be saved; and therefore that they are by Baptism to be entered into the visible Church, as we baptize the Adult, while we are not certain but they may be Hypocrites.

§. 13. 10. The commonest Opinion among the English Calvinists, is, That God hath made no certain Promise of the Salvation of any particular Infant, but by his general Promise of mercy to the Seed of the Faithful, hath given us cause to hope that more of them than of others, shall be saved; and therefore that they are by Baptism to be entred into the visible Church, as we baptize the Adult, while we are not certain but they may be Hypocrites.

§. 14. But I think this would not warrant their Baptism, nor give us any certain hope of any ones Salvation. God hath but one Covenant of Grace, which giveth us Christ and Life; and God hath ordained no Baptism, but what is for the Remission of Sin, and making us Members of Christ, if we have the Conditions of Right to Baptism. The Adult profess Faith and Repentance; if they have them in sincerity, and consent with the Heart as well as the Tongue, they are certainly pardoned: If they are Hypocrites, and consent only with the Lips, they have notoriously the Qualification which the Church must require, and so are received to outward Communion, but not that which God requireth to Remission and Salvation. But if an Infant be the Child of a true Believer, he hath all that God and the Church require: And therefore if he ⟨p. 222⟩be to be baptized, he is certainly put into a state of Life, because no Condition is wanting on his part.