84 ZIR Pow pano faltníip16oflti. there is no appointed way of entring them into Co: venant but by Baptifm. If God command us to de- dicate them to him, he will fure receive them. 5. Scripture telleth us that Chrift would not have raft off the Jewifh Nation, and confequently their Children, from their Church ftatè, if their own un- belief and reje6tinghim had not done it. e2Watth. 23. 37. 0 9erufalem .' how oft would I have gathered thy children, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings and yewould not I Rom. it. They were broken offfor unbelief : Therefore but for unbelief they had not been broken off. And the Gentiles are graffed in- to the fame Olive, or Church fate. And mark it, It is plain here that the Believing part of the Jews were not broken off from a Church Rate, though they cea- fed to be a Kingdom and National Church. And therefore their children loft their Church and Co- venant- right. And if the children of Believing Jews had it, all had it, when the Church was one. 6. Matth. 28. 1 g. He tells us that Nations are ca- pable of being difcipled. And the Kingdoms of the World are to be the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Chrift : But there is no Nation or Kingdom, which In- fants are nota part of. 7. And Chrift himfelf was angry with his Difci- pies that would have kept little Children from him, and Paid, Forbid them not to come unto rte , for of /nch is the Kingdom of Heaven. And therefore he is frill ready to receive them when dedicated to him. Though he then baptized them not, becaufe the com- mon ufe of Chriftian Baptifm was to begin after his deah. 8. And the Apcftle r Cor. ¡. T¢. tells us that our children are holy; which Inuit needs" fignifìe more than
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