The Scots Confession

Chapter 23 - To Whom Sacraments Appertain

We Confess and acknowledge that Baptism appertaineth as well to the infants of the faithful, as to those that be of age and discretion. And so we damn the error of the Anabaptists, who deny baptism to appertain to children, before that they have faith and understanding. But the Supper of the Lord, we confess to appertain only to such as have been of the household of faith, and can try and examine themselves, as well in their faith, as in their duty towards their neighbours. Such as eat and drink at that holy table without faith, or being at dissension and division with their brethren, do eat unworthily: and therefore it is, that in our Kirks our Ministers take public and particular examination of the knowledge and conversation of such as are to be admitted to the table of the Lord Jesus.