Is it possible that the following quote shows the REAL REASON Reformed Baptist have never dented the Reformed Paedo-baptist?
A great deal of Baptist apologetics, as it seems to me, has failed to come to terms with the indubitable fact that the Covenant of Grace, although it exhibits diversity of administrations in the time of promise and in the time of fulfillment, is none-the-less one covenant. As we shall see in a subsequent chapter, Reformed Paedo-baptists argue from this fact to a very wrong conclusion, namely, that as children were baptized under theold economy, so they ought to be baptized under the new. Neverthe less their contention is correctî şthe covenant of grace is one on all ages. In my view Baptists will never seriously disturb Reformed Paedo-baptists until they see this. The divisive, atomistic approach of so much contempory Baptist apologetics is about effective at this point as a shot-gun against a Sherman tank.
Children of Abraham, by David Kingdon, Carey Publications, 5 Fairland Close, Haywars Heather, Sussex RH16 3EF, 1973
I have never met a single Pastor, except Fred Malone (he was first a baptist then a presbuterian and then a Baptist again), who was converted from a Paedo-baptist position without first leaving Covenant Theology. I think Kingdon has in backwards. Malone's book is the best "out theologizing" the paedo-baptist that has been written but I doubt it will convert any Presbyerian pastors. I hope I am wrong. JGR
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