ter..., .0111W A Preface to the Reader. as to us, that they ate the fame fpiritual meat, and drankc the fame fpiritual drink, and here, by him I am oppofed. I muft aitert the juft latitude of the Covenant, making a difference between the Covenant as vouchlîfèd of God, and accepted by us, and our anfwer to it, as alto the ex- tent of it, not determined in their perfons that thus en- ter, but that it reaches their feed ; Here allo I am contra- dried, having no rminde,nor yet daring to quit there tru the in my vindication,togetber with other branches of this do- drine,they muft be vindicated ; If the Reader pleafe to wave this,I trait the reff will not charge his purfe to repent - ance,though Mr.Tombes his unexpected appearance while f t this was in Preffe, bath caufed it to fwell fomewhat big - ger; and yet in this let thole that pleafe to heed, know, that Firft, Here they may fee the dependance that this controverfie hath on the doL`trine of the Covenant that a Scripture Covenant cannot be afferted,but Infant-Mein- berfhip, Infant - Baptifm in the latitude, as now generally tiled by Paftors in their Congregations, muft be upheld. Secondly, the order in which this controverfie is here car - ried,may fo much the rather invite the Reader to it, feeing what is in Mafter Tombes laid down fcatteringly, without regard to any head of doctrine in the Covenant to which it doth relate, here it is reduced to its proper place, and carried on in that manner as an orderly Treatife, and not a perfonal conflia;following the adverfary no farther then as he Rands in the way,to cloud the truth that is there prole- cuted; and though many advantages are hereby négleEted, that might have been taken, which adverfaries ufe to prole- cute to the uttermoft,and my adverfary would to the height haveimproved;.yet I am very well pleated, making it my bufinefs,that my Reader may not be troubled, but edified. Thirdly, the Scriptures that are produced,. and ordina- rily agitated in this controverfie of Infant - Baptifm, are not b onély
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