Presbyterians and Baptists are Protestants who share most of their beliefs, and many on both sides are Calvinists. Where they part is baptism and church government. Presbyterians baptize believers and their infant children, usually by pouring or sprinkling, and are governed by elders in connected courts. Baptists baptize only people who profess faith, by immersion, and each congregation governs itself. The Baptists of the 1689 London Confession did not start from a blank sheet. They took the Presbyterians’ Westminster Confession…

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