Ch.4 3. of the iffitc of Be1eever r. ence : The third exception is, It ù oitcertaine whether there rules . be fuftcient, whether there be no need of any mare. lt is certaine then that Matter Tombes cannot make it appear that they are in fuicient, in cafe he could he would not have left them at an uncer- tainty; I (hall judge them fitfiicient till I hear from Mailer Tombes the contrary. ti 379 SECT. III. The reality of Connexion between the Covenant and initial fettle affected, and the validity of the proofs from feve- ráll Scripture -texts confirmed. He fecond which may help at a dead lift, is tò maintaine that Baptifm belongs not to Infants, though it were granted that they are in Covenant,and therfore he entitles his fifthSedion oaf his flntipe o6ap, e.-1 digregiort about the nullity of connerion betweene the Covenant and the initiall reale as it ù called, and the invalidity of proofs for it from Gen. 17, 7, 9. As 2, 33, 39. The miflakes about which texts are fhereed. So that here is a feafonable place for examination of it For the minor Propolirions being all grant- ed which I laid down in the feveral Syllogifines in the firit Seelion, and fufficiently I fuppofe before proved ; Yet upon this ground' he will Tuition the truth of all thofe major Propofitions : my buh- neffe then mutt be to thew the reality of this connexion betweene the Covenant and initial feale,and the validity of proofs as from thofe texts by him named, fo allo from others that he might have named, and to vindicate arguments for this purpofe And here I mutt mind the Reader of that which is already fpoken, Chap. 37.to that text of the Apotttle, tails a, 38, . hepent,and be baptiticd every one of you in the name of Jefus Chrifl for the remifflon,of fins, and ye fball receive the gift of the holy Chos`l: For the promife is un- to you, and to your children, and to all that are afarre of, even as many as the Lord our God fball call. On which words (after a brief Analylis) I grounded this argument, Thofe to wow the Co venant of promifeappertaines, have right to Baptilme : But the. Covenant of promitè belongs to men in a Church-{late and con Cc c z dition
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