Ch,43. of the ifue of Beleevers. .381 But neither is this certaine, Pith we finde no Each thing concerning .Melchizedek and Lot, that lived in Abrahams time, nor concerning Job that it's conceived lived after his time. If we read nothing to confirme,his Reader fees nothing to contradict it; let him confider what the written word faies of the uncircumcifed. He addes, But you Will fay,it is true of all the feederati in Abrahams family. Bur neither is that true,for male - children before the eighth day, and biro -- men though fcederata,yet were not to be fgned.Is there no connexion betweene them, becaufe he that receives into Covenant & appoints the feale,hach prefcribeda time when it Thal be applied ?A man that bath a grant from King or State,hath ipfo faE;a right to the feal,and the right necef arily followesupon the grant, though he mufitf}ay till a fealing day before he poffeffe it.For his exception of women, though fcederata,.yet were not to be circumcized; i fay, i . Maftee meteehall bath fufficiently anfwered, that they were C of the Circumcifion, and it was an exception againft Sampfon by his parents that he would go to take a wife of the uncircumcifed Philif}ims, 3udg. i4.3. Had he married in 1,5-ad, as he ought, in obedience to God and his parents, he had married a wife of the circumcifed, though that fexe by nature is in an incapacity of . that figne or Peale. In diverfe places of .England ,. the husband being admitted by verdic`i< of a Jury into an,effate, the wife is virtually admitted ; his admifïìon is her admifl.ïon, 2. They had doubtlefhe actually received that figne of Circum- cifion as in New Tefiament -times they do Baptifm, Atli 8. 12. Aar 16. 15. but that is was a_ figne whereof they were in an inca- pacity. He farther addes, If then I fhould farther grant the "conclufion,That Infants of beleevers were to be fgnari,yet you. " would not fay they are to be partakers of the Lords. Supper, be- " cattle it is nor appointed for them ; So in like manner if it were "granted you that Infants of beleevers were co be figned, yet it " follows not that they are to be baptized, unlefid you can prove "that it is appointed to them; and the truth is,if it were grant -. "ed that children were fcedtrati, yet it were a high prefùmption in us to fay therefore they muff be fignati, without Gods decla- " ration of his minde;and if it were granted they mutt be fignati, it "were in like manner a high prelu.mpiion in us to. fay,therefore " they muf} be baptized, without Goas úeclarationnof his minde " concerningthat Ordinance.. That anfwer is fufiicient,that he Ccc 3 bath, 9
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