39$ The Birth- Priviledge and Covenant- holine f fe Ch.43 I but upon the Command to baptizeBeleevers and IDifciples; So that the Command is with reference to the Covenant, with refer - ence to intereft in the Covenant. And Matter Marfhall Both attribute no more to the Command in thofe words , then Matter Tembes loth to the Covenant elfe-where, refpeative to this Seale, where he fayes that the common priviledge of Circumcision be- longing to the Imes, did not write from the Covenant of Grace, ac- cordng to the /uhfbance of it; but according to the adminifátration that then W u, Examen pig. 78, It had its rile then from the Cove- nant. He concludes All this cloth fully fheW, that the proofof the connexion between,and the initial Seale without a particular command for it, is without any weight in it. And I conclude, that it fully fhewes that the proof of the connexion between the Covenant and the initial! Seale, (pre- fuppofing the inflitution =offuch a Seale, and a general Command) is of that weight that all are meere fri- volous trifles that are brought for exceptions againft it. Matter Tombes his next work , is to avoid the proofes of this connexion between the Covenant and the initial! Seale drawne from As`s 2.38,39. Concerning which he fayes , Antipad. p.3 8. As for Alaler Stephens his affertion of the convertibility, as he calls it, between a word of Promife and a word of Command , which in plaine words frould be, `Ibey to whom the a'romife or Covenant of Grace is made , they are commanded to be baptized, andtheir natural/ ,children, even Infants by vertue of the Promife without any other command: it is chiefly grounded on A c`.ts 2.3 8,3 9. in the expounding of which there are almog as many palpable rnifiakes,as there are words . in verf, 39. I would MafterTombes had brought fomewhat' more then words , to convince men of almoft fo many miftakes in that Text, as there are words, He hath his ten exceptions, in few of which can any more then bare words be found, only tel- ling his Reader that it is fo, without any word of reafon to con vince that it should be fo. Firft, He faith, The :Exposition is commonly carried as if the Promife there meant, Were the Promife, Gen. 17.7. To Abraham and his feed, and this expounded as if it were meant , that God Would ! be a God to every Teeleever, and to his feed,in re/ieEl at leafy ofvifble ChurchMen erfhip. When a Promife is mentioned,and a Seale, any man but he will prefently underftand that Promife , which is ratified by filch a Seale. For his wilde-miffake, I referre the Reader 1iEîs z.3'8,39, "Vindicated.
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