Does the New Covenant Exclude Children?

When it comes to the debate on infant baptism, the burden of proof lies with the Baptist. The reason I say this is because every covenant made in the Old Testament between God and His people have always included children...

1)Noahic Covenant (Genesis 9:8-17)- Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him, "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you..." (Genesis 9:8-9)


2)Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 15:9-21;17)- "And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you." (Genesis 17:7)

3)Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 19-24)- "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine..." (Exodus 19:3-5) [This covenant includes children since Israel includes its descendants]

4)Covenant made with Phinehas (Numbers 25:10-13)- "Therefore say 'Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the people of Israel.'" (Numbers 25:12-13)

5)Davidic Covenant (2 Samuel 7:5-16)- "Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel. And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth...When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom." (2 Samuel 7:8-9,12)

Why then, should children be excluded from the New Covenant sign? If children were not to be included in the New Covenant, there should have been an explicit command to NOT baptize infants. But both Baptists and Presbyterians will affirm that there is no such command. Richard Pratt uses the analogy of a rock rolling down hill gaining momentum. If children have been included in every covenant (rock rolling down hill gaining momentum), in order to stop that from happening (stop the rock) there would NEED to be a commandment from God saying something like: "Children are no longer included in this New Covenant as with the old ones, do not baptize infants." This is known as the argument from silence. In logic, it would be a fallacious argument due to lack of evidence. But this argument has sufficient evidence and therefore, as Dr. Sproul mentioned in his debate with John Macarthur, "It is a screaming argument."