Ch.43 of the iftte of Beleevers. thepeople ofGod , as.he knowes when they profeffe to beleeve. And it appeares when it is brought home, this is all his°ground of challenge of Baptifine of perforas in Covenant , becaufe their in- tereft in Covenant is not manifeft. He feemes to make Ele &ion and intereft in Covenant commenfurate. All Elec4 are intereffed in Covenant and all intereffed in Covenant are Elegy}. And E- left Infants (as he hath more then once acknowledged) might be baptized in cafe their Elution were known ; It is not want of title then , that is their barre; but our want of knowledge of their title, And Mr. Tombes knowes that according to our Te- nent, this can be no barre ; As God knowes who are his by Ele- dion, fo the Church, and Minifters of Churches know who are bis by Covenant - engagement and profeflion. And according to Matter Tomber his Tenent, we know that it can be no Barre ; feeing he contends that Chrift was fore difpleafed with his Difci pies, for with- holding thofe little ones, Mattb. 19. from ad- miflìon to him; for a bleßìng; when their Elution and Juflifica- tion was (ashefayes) the ground of it, of which the .Difciples could have no knowledge. As for this conclufion ; " Hence I " inferre , That all thefe kinde of fpeeches are but vaine fpeeches, " that the Covenant of Grace without any other command , is a " command to baptize an Infant; that to deny Infants right to " Baptifine is to defalke the Covenant ofGrace; that the corn- " mand to baptize Difciples, is all one as to command to baptize " perfons in Covenant, with many the like frivolous fuggeftions " ítill inculcated in writings,and Sermons of Pædobaptifts,though " the vanity of them is often demonftrated,as by others, fo in my " Writings. For the firft of thefe, I would faine know who bath wrote or fpoke it : I am confident it is Matter Tombes that bath devifed it; I fay that Faith or Difciplefhip is not enough without any other command to baptize a growne perfon : if Chrift had never given a command for it neither old nor young ought to have been baptized. He knowes, we affirme, and with Arguments (which wait for his Anfwer) affert that Infants are of Chrifts Diciples and have the outward priviledges of Be- , leevers. As for the other, we fee how frivolous his reafons are J to evidence them to be,as he (ayes, frivolous. I, In the next place we are to take into confideration Matter Tombes his Anfwers to Scriptures alleadged. c` If there be any D d d a "proof 3ö7 Gen r7.7,s, Vindicated.
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