Infant baptism, being thus the appointment of God, to attend to it is a duty — to neglect it is a sin. The believer who objects to have his children baptized, is quarreling with a divine ordinance, omitting to claim the spiritual promises and privileges of God’s covenant, practically renouncing, in the name of his children, all interest in that covenant. It is a piece of greater cruelty and folly than was perpetrated by Esau: Esau parted with his own birthright, but the man who repudiates infant baptism parts with his children’s; Esau sold his birthright for something, but this man deliberately flings away a privilege, and receives nothing in return. Thus, the Anabaptist despises his children’s birthright.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 190.