Excerpt from The Principal Arguments From Scripture in Favour of Infant Baptism Considered

It seemed, therefore, as if the Old Testament gave its verdict, that the unbelieving wife was to be separated from the believing husband, as being unclean.

How then does the apostle answer this He says in effect, to those who held the Opinion, ' You cannot stop here. If your principle is good for any thing, it ap plies to unbelieving children likewise, since they are unclean for the same reason. Hence, not only will the connection between man and wife be broken up by your principle, but also the relationship between parents and children. Ifa wife is to be severed from a believing husband, because she is unclean; children must be severed from their believing parents, because they also are unclean.' Observe, the apostle does not say, their children would be unclean, as referring to the particular instance of which he was treating, but, your children are unclean, showing that the principle took in the range of the whole church. For by you and your he everywhere means the whole church which he is addressing. So in this epistle, 1 Cor. Vi, 1, 15, 19, 20 viii, 9; ix,11,12; xi, 18, &c.

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