Chap of the iffite of Beleeveri. that account circumcifed, and thereby incorporated into the body of Gods Covenant - people; yet it will not follow that therefore Infants in Gofpel times fhould by Baptifme be thus. admitted; And to this end he fets himfelfe , Firft to difpute down all argu- ments à pars, all whatfoever that are grounded on parity of rcafon or Analogy and proportion,This he fpeaks to in his Examen, page 28. And I may here fitly referre the Reader to that which I have written,Chap.ao. Selt.4. of my Anfvver to Mailer Tombes; only in a few words vindicate it from his exceptions againft it in his r 4pology, pag.140, &c. Mailer Tombes had laid Examen, pag.L9. To me it is a dangerous principle upon Which they go, that fo argue, to wit, T hat in meere pofitive things (ruch cu Circumcifión and Bel- pt-me are) we may frame an addition to Gods worfhip, from Analo- gy or refemblance conceived by us between two Ordinances, whereof one is quite taken away without inflituti-ngathered by precept or A- pofiolical example. I anfwered, To me this is as dangerous , as to you, but you might have done well to have acquainted your Rea- der who thofe be that go upon any fuch principle ; Z fhould have wondered who thole men be,but that I fee it a thing familiar with you, to put both principles and conclufions upon men, which are fo farre from their pens or tongues, that they never entered into their thoughts. Anfwer pag.74, He replies, eApolog. pag. 141. Mr. Blake ,Birth- priviledge, pag.1 . when in that whole page there is nothing that tends towards it,p4g. T4. (which perhaps he meaner) I fay upon this ground (naming the Covenant extended to them In hints under theLaw were circumcifed,d- upon the fame groundinfants now are to be baptized; fo that it it not barely the analogy betweene Circumeifton and Baptifine, by which lie inforce the Baptifine of' In- fants, but the grounds of bothC'ircumcifion and. Baptifine.; And in my whole difcourfe I did flu4ioufly avoid arguments drawn bare-, ly from Analogy, fo that we may fee how willing Mailer Tombes is to quarrel, and how loth to (peak truth. In cafe I had by Analo gy with Circumcifion made proof of Infants title to Baptifine, it would not have freed himfrom calumny, feeing it is no addition to worfhip,Baptifme is worfhip, as Circurncilion was ; this is but, a demonftration of the latitude and extent of it. Ir runs in Mailer Tombeshis head,that we go about to finde,not a Baptifine- inilitu - - Lion, but an Infant Baptifine inflitution, and that rarely by Ana- logy from Circumcifion; This I confeffe were a wilde underta- B b b 3 king, 373
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