Can infant faith be rejected consistently?

Infant faith or infant seed faith (if not, full-blown faith, plainly still enough by which to be justified before God) has a long and unambiguous history in the Reformed heritage. It isn’t even a close call. Nevertheless, since anti-paedocommunionism is now reaching epistemological self-consciousness, we find some Presbyterians arguing that the Westminster Confession and Catechisms define faith as something that is impossible for infants. Thus, they reason, anyone who agrees with the overwhelming majority report in the Reformed heritage, both before and after and in the Westminster Assembly, is denying the correct definition of faith. Thus, they are in serious error, tampering with, revising, and/or redefining (by agreeing with errorists from John Calvin to Francis Turretin) the definition of justifying faith.

Well, aside from the flagrant revisionism, I have a question. A simple one.

Are believers justified while they sleep? If so, how?

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