The History of Paedocommunion:

Several Ante-Nicene fathers strongly imply the practice, and by Augustine's day, the practice is explicitly universal. The Eastern Orthodox church still practices to this day.

The Western church did the same, with children receiving their first communion directly after baptism. Only by Romish superstition, denying both elements and requiring a Bishop's presence for confirmation (c. 1215), did it fade.

The proto-Reformed Hussites fought to recover this practice, but the Reformers themselves barely addressed the topic. When addressing the arguments from Anabaptists, Calvin strongly condemns it.

However, he concedes the practice is ancient and historical, and does not condemn Augustine and Cyprian for it. Neither did Luther condemn them though again he disaspproved of the practice.

Ante-Nicene Fathers on Infant Baptism:

Jesus came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old men. Therefore he passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants, sanctifying infants; a child for children, sanctifying those who are of that age...
-- Irenaus, Against Heresies 2:22:4

Baptize first the children, and if they can speak for themselves let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them.
-- Hippolytus, The Apostolic Tradition 21:16

In the Church, baptism is given for the remission of sins, and, according to the usage of the Church, baptism is given even to infants.
-- Origen, Homilies on Leviticus 8:3

The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit.
-- Origen, Commentaries on Romans 5:9

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The [New Covenant] embodies the consummation of all the work of God for His people; it is the ocean into which all the rivers of history roll their waters from the beginning of the world.

-- Geerhardus Vos

The protestant reformation in Europe at its peak.
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According to Paul, We Are So Back:

1 Corinthians 15:20-28

²⁰But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. ²¹For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. ²²For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. ²³But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ. ²⁴Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power. ²⁵For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. ²⁶The last enemy to be destroyed is death. ²⁷“For God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “All things are put in subjection under him,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things under him. ²⁸When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things under him, that God may be everything to every one.

Men are pioneers; women are glorifiers.

Men are conquerors; women are beautifiers.

Men are sacrifices; women are life-givers.

"Not surprisingly, amillennialism produces a retreating and crabbed outlook, a church in which men have no thought of victory but only of endless nit-picking about trifles. It produces a phariseeism of men who believe they are the elect in a world headed for hell, a select elite who must withdraw from the futility of the world around them. It produces what can be called an Orthodox Pharisees Church, wherein failure is a mark of election."
— God's Plan for Victory, R.J. Rushdoony

Have you ever known a 5 or 6 year old child of a Christian family who doesn't believe? No, they do. There's nothing wrong with that. We think there's something wrong with that, for a child to believe what his parents tell him. That's not wrong; that's God's way. God's way is for children to start out believing what their parents say.

-- James B. Jordan

"Regarding our eternal salvation it is true that one must not distinguish between man and woman, or between king and a shepherd, or between a German and a Frenchman. Regarding policy however, we have what St. Paul declares here; for our Lord Jesus Christ did not come to mix up nature, or to abolish what belongs to the preservation of decency and peace among us....there does have to be some order among us, and Jesus Christ did not mean to eliminate it, as some flighty and scatterbrained dreamers [assert]."

~Calvin, sermon on 1 Cor. 11:2-3

Fortitude is the virtue which makes a man eager to conquer all of the difficulties that impede good work, nay more even extend themselves to the suffering of death, when either the glory of God demands it or certainly we refuse to fail in what we owe.

-Bellarmine

"In public prayer a minister must not only endeavor to have respect and reverence for the great Majesty to whom he is speaking; he must also manifest this externally without pretense or imitation of others, but in truth and moderation. The matters must be presented in a manner suitable to move and stir up the congregation to follow him in a prayerful frame, and repeatedly say 'amen' upon his prayers. It is dreadful to babble some words in an unintelligible fashion, jumping from one matter to the next, and to speak on without any rhyme or reason. The congregation would benefit much more and be much more attentive if a form-prayer were used than with such a vain production of words." - Wilhelmus à Brakel

A blessed Lord's Day to you all. Enjoy Sabbath worship with your brothers.

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Letting your children choose their religion is as stupid as letting them choose their gender. If you're a Christian, they are, too, whether they like it or not.

As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. (Jos. 24:15)

Praise God

> Show me a single instance of infants being baptized or receiving the Lord's Supper.
> Sure, let's look at 1 Corinthians 10:1-4...

I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and all ate the same spiritual food. and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual  Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

The entire nation of Israel, who was baptized in the cloud and sea, obviously included infants. And the whole nation partook of the spiritual food and drink (the Lord's Supper).

Lest someone argue these Old Covenant sacraments conveyed something less than the New, Paul notes the substance of what the Israelites recieved was Christ Himself.

John Calvin on Wrestling with God:

It is not said that Satan, or any mortal man, wrestled with Jacob, but God himself: to teach us that our faith is tried by him; and whenever we are tempted, our business is truly with him, not only because we fight under his auspices, but because he, as an antagonist, descends into the arena to try our strength.... For as all prosperity flows from his goodness, so adversity is either the rod with which he corrects our sins, or the test of our faith and patience. And since there is no kind of temptations by which God does not try his faithful people, the similitude is very suitable, which represents him as coming, hand to hand, to combat with them....

He, having challenged us to this contest, at the same time furnishes us with means of resistance, so that he both fights against us and for us.... We may truly and properly say, that he fights against us with his left hand, and for us with his right hand. For while he lightly opposes us, he supplies invincible strength whereby we overcome....

We, also, are to learn from [Jacob], that we must fight during the whole course of our life; lest any one, promising himself rest, should wilfully deceive himself. And this admonition is very needful for us; for we see how prone we are to sloth.

-- Commentary on Genesis [32:24]