374 The Birth- Briviledge and Covenant-holineffe Ch.43 king, neither I nor Matter Tombes to help me, can finde an Infant - circumcifioninflicution. If he intlances Gen. 17. 12. Ile that is eight days old fhall be circumcifed among you, every man- childeen your generations; I fay that is no inftitucton of Circumcifion but a fubtequent directory for the particular day (according tò the Pæda.gogy of thofe times) when the perfon was to be circumcifed. The inflicution we finde not with reftriEtion to infancy , but in that latitude as to comprize males of any age, verfe .to. This my Covenant Which ye j'hall keep between me and you and thy feed after thee, every Y191111- childes among you (ball be circumci[ed, Mater Tombes knows very well, that by man - childe only the fexe, and not the growth is difíinguilhed , omnil mas, as juníus and Tre. melius, every male, as .4infmorth reads it ; If that after - direct` ory had not followed, they might have circurncifed (as we baptize) Infants upon any day at their beat convenience, This is plaine the text, and may be farther cleared ; If the inflitution it felfe be with that limit of time to the eighth day, then it had beene their finne (according to Mafter Tombes, the finne of will -wor- Ihip) in cafe that time through negligence had flipt, to have cit- cumcifed them any other day, as it was for a man uncleane,or in a journey on the fourteenth day of the fitti moneth (the time ap- pointed for the Paffeover) to obferve it any other day till God appointed , he fourteenth day of the fecond moneth for fuck oc- calions, Z\-gm. 9, 6, 7, 8. But that they had their liberty by vertue of the infiitution to circumcifè any other day, when that was o- ver, is cleare in the text, and may be farther made plaine, that A- braham fo underftood it by his circumciuing of Ifbmael at thir- teene yeers, which had beene without warrant, had there beene an infiitution only for children of eight dayes : when God was difpleafèd at Mofes his neglect of the Circumcifion of his fonne, Exod. 4. 24. yet he was pleated that he was after cìrcumcifed, verte 2 fo that as there was an infiitution in Old Teitament- timcs, for all males in Covenant without dillin6tion of age; fo there is in New Teflament- times an infiitution of Baptifine for all in Covenant without difference of age or fexe. Ir initanced in the Apollies argument from Analogy for Miniftery maintenance, i Cor. 9.9. i `im. 5. i 8. Matter Tombes anfwers,The Apofirle loth not by bare Analogy conclude IWiniflers maintenance, but from the Lords Ordinance; He does conclude it then (by his confcflion) from
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