Anabaptist view

<p>Excerpts from ChristianHistory.org article, "Covenant Children":</p>

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<li>Moravian Anabaptist leader Balthasar Hubmaier, "<em>On the Christian Baptism of Believers</em> (1525)", argued that only adults who had confessed faith in Christ should be baptized. He wrote: "The word or teaching should precede the outward baptism, along with the determination to change one&rsquo;s life by the help of God.&rdquo;</li>

<li>Anabaptists viewed baptism a sign of the actual salvation of an understanding, believing person, as opposed to the potential salvation of an infant; and that only such persons comprised the church.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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<li>Note that this definition of the church matches the definition of the "Invisible Church" as defined by the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA).</li>

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