SIR Poo? 'Jam; farntíp 83 tifm is made the door of entrance into the Gofpel- Church, and there is neither a word of Command nor Example ofentring any other way. 2. But the Infants of Believers are to be entred in- to Chrifts Church as its Infant Members and Difei- pies: Which is proved, I. Becaufe Infants were Mem- bers of the Church before Chrifts Incarnation : Ard Chrift came not todeltroy the Church priviledges, but to enlarge them. Circumcifion entred the Jews Chil- dren : And the Iimaelites and Edomites, and the po- fterity of Keturah ufed Circumcifion as weil as the Jews : And though Circumcifion ceafe, Infants Church memberfhip ceafeth not. For thefe two were fepara- ble before:In theWildernefs for forty years all the Jews children were uncircumcifed, and yet they ceafed not to be Church-members : Yea, Deut.29.they were cxprefly entred into the Covenant of God. 2. It appeareth therefore that the Inftitution of Cir- cumcifion proverb not that Infants Church-memberfhip was then itiftituted Yea, it is plain that it continued fromAdams time : 1. Becaufe there is not one word of ìntiniation in the Scripture elfe when it began. 2. The word [fled] Gen. 3. Is. in the New Cove-.. nant is extenfive to all ages : For though it be meant of Chrift as the Head and Captain, it is meant of all the holy feed as his members. 3. God did Bill joyn the Children with the Parents in promifes and threats, blefiings andcurliings, in all ages, before Circumcifion. q , There is no proofChat God had any Church on earth ofwhich Infants were not members. 3. God bath by Nature and Inftitution, .Deus. 29. 10,1 I, 12. Gen.17. 13. made it the duty of Parents . to enter their children into the Covenant of God : which is no where reverfed : Bar under the Gofpel G 2 there
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