The Papists tell us of five more, viz., confirmation, penance, matrimony, orders, and the extreme unction. In general, it is a matriculation, or visible admission of children into the congregation of Christ's flock. He has a right sealed to the ordinances, which is a privilege full of glory. The child baptised is under a more special providential care of Christ, who appoints the tutelage of angels to be the infant's life-guard. To such as belong to the election, baptism is a 'seal of the righteousness of faith,' a laver of regeneration, and a badge of adoption.
Children are parties in the covenant of grace.
The promise is to you and to your seed. Certainly Jesus Christ did not come to put believers and their children into a worse condition than they were in before. If the children of believers should not be baptised, they are in worse condition now than they were in before Christ's coming. The Scripture is silent herein and does not mention infant baptism. Though the word infant baptism is not in Scripture, yet the thing is.