William Tyndale on Baptism
Infants included, as a covenant sign
that sign of baptism, ever continued among us in baptizing our young children, doth ever keep us in mind, and call us back again unto our profession
THE POSITION
Infants are baptized, and baptism is the sign of repentance and faith, not their cause: the washing "without the word helpeth not." He argues from circumcision in the Brief Declaration that the covenant, not the rite, saved the infant, so the unbaptized infants of Christians who meant to baptize them "are in as good case as these that die baptized." In the Jonas prologue the baptism of young children is kept up as a standing reminder of the profession.
3 Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of life.
8 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
English translator of the New Testament from Greek and of the Pentateuch from Hebrew, working in exile in the Low Countries, whose wording runs through the King James Version. He was strangled and burned at Vilvoorde in 1536. He was also the first English Protestant theologian of weight, defending justification by faith, the authority of Scripture over the church, and the obedience owed to kings. This entry rests on the Obedience of a Christian Man, the Answer to Sir Thomas More, the Brief Declaration of the Sacraments, the exposition of 1 John and his biblical prologues, all in the Parker Society edition (1848–1850).
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"William Tyndale on Baptism", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/tyndale/baptism (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/tyndale/baptism).