Book 4/Chapter 16
Blessing the children (section 7)
1. Why did the anabaptists not accept Christ blessing the children as a reason for baptizing them?
2. How does Calvin answer this?
Argument from silence (section 8)
1. If we accepted that infant baptism is unbiblical because it is not mentioned, then what else is unbiblical?
Baptism and circumcision (section 9)
1. If someone fires a jest at infant baptism, what else do they hit?
Beasts or men (section 10)?
1. In order to sharply distinguish circumcision and baptism, what do the anabaptists do?
2. And if that were the case, what were the benefits like that God gave to them?
Colossians 2:11 (section 11)
1. What was Paul’s point in Colossians 2:11?
2. What does Calvin call the doctrine that the Old Testament signs were merely earthly and literal?
Stopping too soon (section 12)
1. What is the sin of these “fickle spirits”?
2. What are they gravely mistaken in?
These are the questions for the readings for Thursday, November 12, and those readings can be found here.