Baptism

A short booklet printing a sermon Schaeffer preached in St. Louis on 30 March 1947, in a series titled "What We Believe", while he was a pastor in the Bible Presbyterian Church. It sets out the Presbyterian case for baptising the children of believers. Its outline moves from the arguments of those who baptise only believers, through salvation by faith alone, the unchanging and spiritual nature of God's covenant and baptism as its outward sign, to the application of the sign to infants, the practice of the New Testament church and the witness of church history. Editions appeared from Cross Publishing (1973) and TriMark Publishing (1976, 25 pages), and the booklet has stayed in print. It was not included in The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer.