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National-Comprehensive

All nationally baptised infants are full visible church members — the broader Erastian-Anglican settlement, rejected by Westminster's stricter discipline.

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Children of Believers is Federal-Inclusion-Paedobaptist. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Children of Believers.

The Children of Believers and the Sign of the Covenant 1645 Who belongs in the visible covenant, and what is the sign?

Other positions on Children of Believers

Federal-Inclusion-Paedobaptist WCF Children of one or both believing parents are in the visible church and receive its sign (WCF XXV.2, XXVIII.4). Credo-Baptist Only professing believers and their profession-marked baptism belong to the visible covenant — the 1689 Particular Baptist departure.

Cite this position

Study Reformed, “National-Comprehensive” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/covenant/children_of_believers/national/.

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