j Cb.4 3. of the if to of Beleevers. as hehints to us, for he gives not us his words, nor yet any refe- rence where we: fhall finde them) he mikes the metaphor of 'a feale, the genus of a rite, and faies, It; it like the defining of a man to be i a tree turned upwards. This (among others) he bath Chewed to be . of no weight in his letter to him, we Thall expec4 another like letter to (hew Saint Paul( definition,. Rom.4. t 1. to be alike light (who runnel upon the fame error, if an error) when he files that Circumci lion is a fighe and Beale, is the gent2s, and the dif- ferentialies in thefè words to difiinguifh it from other liignes and feales of the righteou/neffe of faith. The nature of a Sacrament Elands in a figure , and the whole efficacy of it in the ufe. . And how elfe then fhould the nature and ufe of it be held out? a. 'He quarrels at the terme of feale of initiation, pag. 3 5. which he faies is a.late deviled terme which the Scripture tefeth not, and becaufe fo much abufe it made of it, to zvit, from a were metaphor that is not once uferi ifs Scripture to infer Loaves and rules to binde mens confciences, I therefore take liberty to rejec`I it. But as wife men, becaufe they fce it gives light to reelifie mens judgements, make ate of it; and that is too weak an exce- ption to re jec`$ a word becaufe it is not found in Scriptures. The name of Seale is no where in Old Tefiament-Scripture given to Circumcilion, yet all that time it had the nature of a Peale, and de- fervedly might have had the name,as appears from the . Apoflle in the place fore-quoted. If he will be fofireight- laced, he muff cafi off many words, Deity,7rinity, Incarnation, Free mill, Cove- rant of Worl ¿s,Covenant of grace, & c. Fe does not yet deny Ba- ptifme to be a feale;when he does, we fhall defire of him to know to wharufe it ferves. And though fomewhere he fpends words a- bout the_invereon of the Scripture -order of the Sacraments, and ¡. will have an unbaptized perlon admit able in his unbaptized hate to the Lords Supper; yet he cannot ally but in Scripture-courfe Laptifine went before, Difciple Nations,baptizing them in Chrifts comma ^d,not giving the Supper of the Lord to them ; The Eu- nuch affoone as he was a convert underftood it, and therefore faies not,Here is bread and wine, what fhould hinder but that I may fir down at the Lords ?but here is water, &c. If it be granted to be a feale,and an initial' leale,MdfierTombes well tough kr:ows what will follow, it hash that relation to the.Covenant that In- fants in Covenant mutt not be denied it. Tte
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