David F Wright and Rich Lusk

David F. Wright is Emeritus Professor of Patriscs and Reformed Christianity, New College, University of Edinburgh. He’s translated Reformation source material, edited numerous theological references works, study series, and authored several books on the history and theology of the Reformation. In The Westminster Confession Into the 21st Century vol 1 (ed. J. Ligon [...]

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Martin Bucer on Baptism

We confess and teach that holy baptism, when given and received according to the Lord’s command, is in the case of adults and of young children truly a baptism of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit, whereby those who are baptised have all their sins washed away, are buried into the death of our [...]

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Baptism in the Belgic Confession

Article 34: The Sacrament of Baptism

We believe and confess that Jesus Christ, in whom the law is fulfilled, has by his shed blood put an end to every other shedding of blood, which anyone might do or wish to do in order to atone or satisfy for sins.Having abolished circumcision, which was done with blood, [...]

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IPO and Baptism in Leviticus 1

(Should I email this directly to Mark Horne first or just let him find it on his own?)

So says Calvin:
This, then, was the first rule of obedience, that men should not offer promiscuously this or that victim, but bulls or bull-calves of their herds, and male lambs or kids of their flocks. Freedom from blemish [...]

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Calvin on Romans 6:4

Second verse, same as the first:
Let us know, that the Apostle does not simply exhort us to imitate Christ, as though he had said that the death of Christ is a pattern which all Christians are to follow; for no doubt he ascends higher, as he announces a doctrine, with which he connects, as it [...]

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Calvin on Colossians 2:12

I know, I’m really bad at staying gone, but this just couldn’t wait:
When he says that we are buried with Christ, this means more than that we are crucified with him; for burial expresses a continued process of mortification. When he says, that this is done through means of baptism, as he says also in [...]

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Nyssa on Baptism

Let us now address ourselves to the next point. What is it that we achieve by holy baptism? Is it not a share in the life that is no longer a prey to death? I hardly think anyone who was in any sense a Christian would deny this. But is this [...]

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The Sin of Neglecting Baptism (WTJ 69.1)

Sometimes I do my historical research explicitly for the purpose of answering a dispute. Other times it just falls right out of the sky on top of me. Here’s a little ditty in the latest Westminster Theological Journal called “The Sin of Neglecting Baptism” by Northern Irish Presbyterian Jonathan Moore:

The infant is not [...]

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Resurrection and Justification

Justification by faith is all about the resurrection. You believe that God will make things right, and one of the things that will be made right is the dead creation:

Romans 4: 13- 23

For the promise that he would be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through the [...]

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Cornelius Burges

Cornelius Burges is a famous English Puritan who served as a Divine to the Westminster Assembly. As I recall, he had a pretty influential voice at the Assembly, likely contributing to much of the Confessional language we know and love today.
His book on baptism is called The Baptismal Regeneration of Elect Infants and can [...]

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