Sptritùal treat and Comfort. 313 to us, or conveyed by Generation. 2. Yet it is as true that Grace is given do our Children as well as to us. That it may be fo, and is fo with fore , all will grant whobelieve that Infants may be, and are Pa- ved : And that it is fo with the Infants of Believers, I have fully proved in myBook of Baptifm : But mark what Grace I mean : The Grace of Remif ion oforiginal fin the Children ofalltrue Believers have at leaft a high probability of, ifnot a full Certainty ; their Parent Accepting it for himfelf and them, and Dedicating them to Chrift , and engaging them in his Covenant, fo that he takes them for his People, and they take him for their Lord and Saviour. And for the Grace of inwardRenewing of their Natures or Difpofition, it is a fecret tous , utterly unknown whether God ufe todo it in Infants or no. 3 Gods fief-ordained way for the working of inward holi- nefs is by Parents Educationof their Children, and not by the publike Miniftry ofthe Word : ofwhich more anon. 4. All godly Parents do acquaint their Children with the dotrineof Chrift in their Infan- cy, as foon as they are capable ofreceiving it,anddo afterwards inculcate it on them more and more. 5. Thefe Inftruc`tions of Parents are ufually fecond- ed by theworkings ofthe Spirit, according to the ca- pacityof the Child, opening their underftandings to receive it, and making an impreflion thereby upon theheart. 6. When thefe Inftruc`kions and the in- ward workingsoftheSpirit are juft pall the prepara- tory part, and above the higheft ftepof Common Grace , and have attained to fpecial faving Grace, is ordinarily undifcernable : and therefore, as I have fhewed already, inGods ufual way of working Grace,
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