[170] fence of the Book. And if the meaning be not LCh:ldren that are ,l3aptiz.ed, qua tales] it bath no intelligible fence,; the certainty of their Sal- vation being Afí'erted as fromScripture, and not anyother reafon of it given. But if this be the meaning (as it is) then a quatenus ad omnes va- let confequentia; un!efs any exception had been added, which is nor. 4. Some fay that it is implied that Children that had no right to Baptifm are excepted. But others fay r. That ubi lex non diflinguit non eft diflinguendlm. The Church could have excepted if they would. z. And that pod fieri non debet f tium valet. 3. Yea that all Children have right to Baptifm, ifany Chriftians offer them to it. 5. Some confound the Minifters right to Baptize them, and the Infants right to be Bap- tized; And this right as only in fora Eccl f e, and as in foro Cali ; As if all Baptized upon any of thefe rights were undoubtedly Caved, But others diitin. uifh there, and fay, z. That the Minifter may have right to Baptize one if offered, that ?: t ought not to have been offered; whichwill not fave an uncapable fubjet : z. That the Children of Hypocrites have right Coram Ec- cldfra,and that their Baptifm afcertaineth to them no more than external or common priviledges ; 3. And that only the Children of true believers have fuch a right coram Deo as certainly faveth them. But others fay that both the 'aft fort are Paved. 6. Some of them hold that All Infants in the world Baptized or not, arefavedbyuniverfal redemption, if they dye before aErualfin : And that the Article therefore affirmeth it of theBaptize& But
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