Westminster's Baptism Part 1

What Is Epistemology?

Quotation for Introductory context:

Page 4-“But, alas, we may say of most men’s religion what learned Rivet* speaks concerning the errors of the fathers, “They were not so much their own errors, as the errors of the times wherein they lived.” Thus do most men take up their religion upon no better an account than Turks and Papists take up theirs, because it is the religion of the times and places wherein they live; and what they take up thus slightly, they lay down as easily.”

Westminster Assembly. (1851). The Westminster Confession of Faith: Edinburgh Edition (p. 4). Philadelphia: William S. Young.

Why should you be proficient aside from self aggrandizement?

Page 5-“If, therefore, there be any spark in you of love to God, be not content that any of yours should be ignorant of him whom you so much admire, or any haters of him whom you so much love. If there be any compassion to the souls of them who are under your care, if any regard of your being found faithful in the day of Christ, if any respect to future generations, labour to sow these seeds of knowledge, which may grow up in after-times. That you may be faithful herein, is the earnest prayer of,” [All the divines who had contributed to this document]

“Families are societies that must be sanctified to God as well as Churches; and the governors of them have as truly a charge of the souls that are therein, as pastors have of the Churches.”