274 The Birth-1Pt"ivilecige and Covenant-bolinef'e Ch.37 for their Church- merftberfhip nor Baptifine. God in the Cove- nant with Abraham did not expreffely mention infants, but feed, yet infants were his feed, and as his feed by Gods command to be circumcifed, and all our infants are our children. rills 2 .7. is an xpref a text with Mager Tombes, (without any help of conic quence) to prove that women received the Lords Supper, Apolog, peg. 13o. Recatuf e it is fand, that d /tiples came together to break, bread, therefore expreffely women brake it, as though a woman and difciple were fynonyma? but here the promife being made to children, infants nuts neither be comprized in the letter, nor yet by any favour of confequence included. Mailer Tombes was hard put to it when this came in for an anfwer. Farther, he faith, that the -text Ipca!s not of the children of' the Gentiles at all (of whom we are) brat of the children of the 7ewes, and therefore if that promife be extended to infants,whìch doth not appear,the promife is to be expound- ed fo as to note fomething peculiar to the ?ewes infants. If the Go- feel held out any fuch tranfcending priviledges appertaining to the feed of the jewes above the Gentiles, Mailer Tombes may do well to produce a text for it, otherwife we íhall take it for granted from Saint Paul, that there is none at ail, that there is neither Greek nor 1 eu', ,Cirsumcifon nor nnciret mcifian,,Barbarian nor Scy- thian; bond nor free, And when the Apoftle addes, To thole that are afarre off, even ea many as the Lord fhall call, he plainly meanes the Gentiles, as appears, comparing Ephef, 2. and though I take not the boldneffe to adde to the words, And to their children, as Mailer Tombes challenges Dr, H. yet it is clear, that the fame is underflood there in reference to the children of the Gentiles, that . is expreft before to the children of the Jewes. If any shall grant an inheritance to Titius and his heirs for ever, and to Calf a, every one will underfiand that the heirs of Cairo are meant as well as the heirs of T , efpecially if it can be proved out of the Grant it fell, that the priviledges conveyed to Calve, is as ample as that to Titian, We can prove the priviledges granted to the Gen- tiles in the Gofpel to be equall to thofe granted to the Jews; when the Jews children then are under the promife with their parentst the children of beleeving Gentiles cannot be excluded. kz CHAP.
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