# First Hevetic Confession
Article 22 - Baptism
We affirm that Baptism is the institution of the Lord, and the bath of regeneration which the Lord presents to his elect, as a visible sign through the ministry of the church (as has been explained above).

With this holy bath we shall therefore bathe our infants, since it is wrong to reject those born of us (who are the Lord’s people) from the fellowship of God’s people, so long as they have not been designated reprobate by the voice of God, especially since it is to be presumed that their election is pious.

[Genesis 17](/get-passage/Genesis+17); [Luke 18](/get-passage/Luke+18); [Acts 10](/get-passage/Acts+10); [Titus 3](/get-passage/Titus+3); [1 Corinthians 7](/get-passage/1+Corinthians+7).