Infant baptism in the Congregational tradition. From a paper given at the 1982 Congregational Studies Conference, John Legg outlines the Biblical basis for the baptism of covenant children.
Historically, Congregationalists or independents have believed in and practised infant baptism. The trust deeds of almost all our church buildings asser this, resting as they do upon the Savoy Declaration of 1658, or the almost identical doctrinal articles of the Westminister Confession or the much weaker, but still explicit 1833 Declaration.