Ch.42 of the i. ffite of Beleevers. His invention ferves here to little purpofe And jet (faith he) he and Mr. Marshal flicl; not to oh/doing ag infi Anabaptif s, for not affiiring falvation to the deceafing Infants of Belccvers from l that Covenant Which Mafter Martha' will not ojèrt, page i i 6. e s it is a Covenant o f faving grace, to be Made to Beleei ens and their natural'feed , 11-ór. Blake faith, only entitles to .outward privi- ledges. He lets not the Reader know where nor in what words we ever thus difclaimed ; when it is once made to appear, I fha11 confeffe Anabaptifis are wronged. We can affert the falvation neither of Parent nor Infant but upon termes, the performance whereof to us is unknown; in the mean fpace the Reader muft know that we are wronged we place them in the fame condition (refpetive to God and Glory) as other vifible Church - members, unto whom Matter Tombes will not affure falvation , upon- that account that they are vifible Members ; yet wi',1 judge them in a better condition then Heathens (whom he excludes from all hopes) being of the number of thofe, out of whom God chufeth thofe whom he faves. Parent and Childe are both nigh, Ephef. 2. 17. when Heathens are afar off, both of them are in a nearer capacity then Heathens , ( not under that doome, Without hope, Without God) yet neither of them aaualiy infallibly entitled to Glory. We never fpake againft him, becaufe he dóth not affert an infallibity of their falvation; but becaufe he layes down thofe principles, on which ( according to Scripture - Logick) there is a necefíity to inferre their condemnation. He addes, But We lay (faith r1:r. Blake) that all Infants and men of years, for ought that I we can finde from any Scripture grounds, are utterly loft that want all right of Baptifme: And anfwers, He might fay they are in danger to be loft, by reafon of Original corruption; not for want of right to Baptifme: but to fay they are utterly loft , is more then Mr. Blake bath ground to affirme. And their want of right to Baptifme, holds them fait in the guilt of Original corruption, keeping them with- out Chrift, and confequently without falvation. I have often ,¡hewed (faith he) that a right to'Baptifine is from the command of Chrif , not from such Covenant- holinelfe, Moller Blake afferts. Then the Spaniards did well in the Weft- Indies to drive the na- tìves,as beafts by droves to the water for Baptifme; they made up one of the Nations of the world , and Chrifts com iaand is to ba- ptiz,e all Nations. Mailer i om.bes it feerres- forgot that there is prefixt 367
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