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2.
ObjelKi.
Anf.
°i
3
AN
.r.
PropoGtions
of
beingGods
chíldren,and
of
wrath
roo.
.I.
2.
3.
PA
Confutation
of
Papifls and
Lutherans.
Ephefians,
Cl,ap,z.
V s
the other
of
members
of
the fecond Adam:now
in
the
first refpeéì:,they
bring
forth
children
of
wrath;
in
the
fecond, children
of
the
Covenant;
children
of
graces,as
I
may
fay.
But here
many doubts may be moved.
First,
how the Parent whole faith
is
but for himfelfe
to
live
by
,
can
by
his
faith
infinuate his children into
the Covenant.
Againe, when
many
a
Noah
have
chews, how
faith
can beleeve
filch
a
thing;
for
the thingbeleeved
muff
be
infallible.
To
the
first,
the
faith
of the Parent doth bringthe
child into the
Co-
venant,
yet
fo
as
the
child liveth
by
his
owne faith, which
is
not
to
be
denied
in
fuch
as
furviving come
to
fellowship
of
like
precious
faith.
But
many Infants dye before
they come
to heare and to have
faith,
for ought we
can
know;
what
may
be
faid
to
this cafe
They
live
bytheir
faith,
becaufe in this cafe,
the
faith
of
the
Father
is
the
childs faith alto;
For looke
as
it was
juft
with God, to
reckon
the
deed
of
/dam,
all
our
deeds:
fo iris
not
ill
befeeming
his mercy
and
justice,
to
let
in
this cafe,
the
faith
of
the Parent
stand
for
the
child.
For the fecond,
Faith
is
not wavering, though the eventanlwer
not,
becàufe it
doth not abfolutely
apprehend this falvation for
every
one,
but
leaveth place to
Gods
fecret
judgements.
But
how
can it
thus conditionally beleeve without wavering
c
It
is
one
thing to waver, anotherthing to
beleeve
with
condition;
we
beleeve we
shall
have
outward things, yet
with condition.
A
third
question is,
how
this
diftinéhion can
efcape
a
contradinion;
that
which
is
true, must be true
in Tome
time now
if
an
Infant
may
be
borne
having the
Covenant
,(which
in
fome
cafe
we
teach)
there
is
no
time
in
which this Infant
can
be
Paid
a
child
of
wrath.
It
followeth nor,
for there
is
nothing
wherein it may
not
bee
faid
a
child, though
it be borne with application of
the Covenant:
for
as the
Parent hath
a
double person,
fo
hath the Infant
;
in
the one,
it
isa
child
of
the Covenant,in the
other,of
wrath.Marke for
conclusion these
three
things.
t.
Every one
is a
fon
of
wrath
in
Adam, even
in
that
inftant,
and
in
Gods
eye, with
whom
there
is
neither
pall
nor
to come; Wee,we
are
all
of
us
dead.
2. This wrath abideth,till application
is made
of the blood
of
Chrift.
3.
If
this
be
even
with our
first
being, whenfoever
it is,it taketh
not
away the
refpedl
of our naturali condition
:
O
miferable man that
I
am!
&c. This
was
true
of
lehn
Baptif1,
yet from the wombe
hee
was
fan
-
Etified.
To
confute
the
flanderous Papists and Lutherans,
who
would
make
us
Anabaptists,
as
denying
fin
Originali, denying the guilt
of
it
; where
we teach it
in
Infants, we teach
it worthy
of
wrath
;
teach
the
perlons
as
comming
of
Adam,children
of
wrath,yet
as in
the Covenant
ofgracc
to havepardon, and the
feale
is a
leale
fet
to this, not
as a
foundation
or
beginning
of
it.
Secondly, we
may
fee
what it
is
that
is
borne
of
the
fiefh,
and
there-
fore