Book 4/Chapter 16
The attack on infant baptism (section 1)
1. Who attacks infant baptism, according to Calvin?
2. What is the appearance of their argument?
3. And what is it?
The meaning of baptism (section 2)
1. What should we not focus on in baptism?
2. Are we to reason from baptism to the promises, or the other way?
Baptism and circumcision (section 3)
1. To what in the Old Testament does Calvin compare and contrast baptism?
Differences (section 4)
1. What are the differences between circumcision and baptism limited to?
Infants in the covenant (section 5)
1. Are infants participants in the life of the covenant?
2. What does Calvin infer from this?
Christ in His coming (section 6)
1. What did Christ not do in His coming?
2. What are the children of at least one Christian?
3. If infant baptism is successfully denied, what would this do to Christ’s coming?
These are the questions for the readings for Wednesday, November 11, and those readings can be found here.