---
title: 'The Status of the Baptized Child'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Arnold De Welles Miller'
date: 1860-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Sacraments'
- 'Children and Youth'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 2'
- 'Acts 3'
- '1 Corinthians 7'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/miller-1860-the-status-of-the-baptized-child
---

# The Status of the Baptized Child

Argues that children of church members are born into the visible Church by the Abrahamic covenant; baptism is the covenantal seal, placing infants under church care, government, and discipline.

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