At the time of the Reformation and soon after, there was a large number of folks that believed baptism to be "effectual" in conveying God's saving grace. Catholics, Lutherans and Reformed and to some extent Anglicans.
The Anabaptists believed in a "believers' only baptism" and they were against infant baptism. It's interesting to note that believer's baptism was considered heresy by all other major Christian denominations at the time of the Reformation period, as many of them saw baptism as necessary for salvation and thus wrong to delay baptism
until later in life.
Those denominations I mentioned above had pretty much held to the historic practice of infant baptism and believers baptism was considered a heresy.
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