Child Dedication Services among British Baptists in the Seventeenth Century

Abstract

"To Christians who adopted an anti-paedobaptist position in the Reformation Era, two practical questions presented themselves. First, ought they themselves to be rebaptised as believers or was their first baptism as infants sufficient? Secondly, ought some type of dedicatory service to be performed for their children who would not be baptised until they reached an age of accountability? The answer to the first of these questions for the early Baptists on the European Continent and in the British Isles is well known."