38 2 The Birth - iriviled ge and Covenant- holinef Ch.4 3 hath from Maffei. Marfhall that there is difference between a Peal { For initiation, and a Peale for'confirmation; a teal wherein no more is of neceffity then to be pafiive, and that wherein we are to be active ; yet to come more neereunto him, I am content to yie'd his conclulion fuppofing that his argument is of force, Every Church - member hath true title to all Churchpriviiedges; But Infants are Church- members, the Lords Supper is a Church -pri- viledge;and therefore Infants have true title to it, Btrt then I muff diitingui1h jam ad rem, and jui in re, every Infant hath right to it, yet by reafon of infancie hat'h his ar`ïual interefl fafpended;Paul by birth had title to all the priviledges of the City of Rome, be ing borne free, Aas aa, 2S. yet it does not follow shat he was to give his vote, or appear in AfIlmblies as a free Citizen in the time of his minority ; yaws the fixth was crowned in Scotland, and Henry the fixth in England, in the time of their minority, fo that they were reckoned among the Kings of Nations; yet neither of them did in their own perlons exercife regalia till yeers of difcretion. As there Infants of title were crowned, fo Infants that are Church-members are to be baptized, when yet àh Infant can no more partake (as a Chriftian ought) of the Lords Supper,then an Infant -King can wield the great things of his Kingdome, An Infantheir from the 6r1í inftanr of his fathers death, and a burnous childe from the time of his birth, finds feized of his fa- thers inheritance ; The whole title is vetted in him, how ample foever, and in no other, and he is received into ir, and lives upon it, yet he is held from the managing of it till he can improve for his owrí and the publike benefit; So that the taking into Cove- nant is a fufcient declaration of Gods minde, that the fgnes and leaks in an orderly way fhould be granted to them, and all there appear to becavils,and not anfwers. Having feene the ftrength of that which he bath n his Exa mew. I fhail now take a view of that which he hath to the fame purpofe in his rIntiprdebaptifine, where I fhall follow his order. a. To obferve that at which he quarrels. 2. To tae up what hé yields. 3. To obf'qtrve what he affirmes. q. To take into confideration his anfwers. . Firft, he quarrels with Matter Robert B 'iyly, pig, 37. becaufe (as
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