1. That baptism with water has been appointed by Christ as the door of entrance into His Visible Church, and is the token of the Covenant of grace under the Christian Dispensation, in the place of circumcision, which was the token of this Covenant upon its formal establishment with Abraham. To be baptized with water, therefore, is necessary to constitute any one a member of the Visible Church of Christ or Kingdom of God upon earth. 2. That since _faith_ hath from the beginning been appointed by God, as the instrument or means by which men are admitted into Covenant with Him, it was the command of the Lord Jesus Christ that baptism, which is now the token of the Covenant, should be administered only to _believers_. It was the same with respect to circumcision. Abraham believed God: and, as a believer, he was circumcised. And true believers only are acknowledged by Christ as rightful members of His Church. Yet as Abraham’s children were admitted to circumcision together with himself, it is hence inferred, that the children of believers in Christ should be baptized, as well as their parents: no prohibition of their admission to the Ordinance having been given. This conclusion is confirmed by Christ’s kind reception of the children that were brought to Him—by the application of Old Testament promises after Christ’s resurrection—by the declared continuance of the root and fatness of the Olive-tree planted at first in Abraham—and by the description given of the children of even one believing parent, namely, that they are holy; that is, such as ought to be presented to the Lord. Still, no direction to administer baptism to children has been found, nor is any instance of it recorded.