38-0 The Birth-Priviledge and Covenant-holinelf'e Ch:43 dition, and to their children,- Therefore thofe that are in a Church- Rate and condition, and their children have right to Baptifine. My bufinef e then being to affert the latitude and extent of the Co- venant, without refpea to Baptifine, or any other feale ; I fpake only to the minor Propofition, That theCovenant extends it felfe not only to men in a Church- ftate,but with them to their children, Now Mr Tornbts his oppofition puts me upon confirmation of the rajor,That they to whom the Covenát of promife appertains,have right to Baptifine ; Infants right being not afferted qua Infants,no more then the right of men of growth qua of growth, or of men in yeeres, qua in yeers, but all of them as they Rand in Cove- nant-relation to God. And here I'hall rid}, Take into conlideration what he bath Paid in opposition to this in his Examen. Secondly, what he hath added upon fo many yeers thoughts in his e4ntipedobaptifmc. For the firf{, When Ma(ler N1ar,74ll urged this in his Sermon as his firít argument : " The Infants of beleeving parents are fce- " dorati; Therefore they mutt be fa nati : They are within the Co- ' venantofgrace,belonging to Chrif }s body, Kingdonie, Family; " therefore are to partake of the Peale of his Covenant, or the diffinguiflíing badge betweene them who are under the Cove - "-nant of grace and them who are not. Maher Tombes excepts, " pag. 36. They that deny the confequence of your argument,, " ° do it jufily, for the confequencemull be proved by this univerfal; "All that are fo dorati muff be f gnati; All that are in the Cove- " nant of grace, muff be fealed; which is not true. If it were true, " it muff be fo either by reafon of force neceffary connexion be "tweene the termes, which is none, for it is but a common acci- " dent to a man that hash a promife or a Covenant made to him, '`that he fhou,ld have a fpeciall.(igne, it may ade fe vol aere à fub- " jet -1o, it may be prefent or absent from the fubje1. Giving fome inflames of Covenants without feales. Dots he think that ever any doubted but that a Covenant may Rand alone without a feale annexed ? but where a feale is appointed for inffitution, (as there hath beene in the Church ever fince God took a people to himfelf' out oo e4brahams loines) there is .a connexion. hisan- fwer he f&refees, and faies :`But you will, fay,e471 that are fcede- 1 rad ;fhoasld 6e_ fignatì, fimme the folemne Covenant with Abraham; 2 ast
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