Ch43 of the fue of Beleevers. Reader to look back to what I have Paid on thefewords, Chap 37. and toMafter Gobbets Vindication, Part. i. Chap.a. Se51.3. Secondly, He faith , They expound C4-1 is Acts 2.39.] as if it were a promife of a thing to come , (onie outward priviledge to be conferred on them and their chit <ren whereat the chief thing meant in the f eech is , that as is expre f fely faid by Paul, Ad. 13. 3 2, 33. Yet he quotes no man for this Expofition of a thing to come, but F on the contrary quotes MafterCobbet in the Margin againft it. It is meant of a prefent right, for as yet they were not broken off from the Olive, nor Gentiles graffed in. Thirdly, He faith, It is taken as if .[ toyou ] were meant cf thole per font to whom he flake, as these Beleevers, and under that for - srsall confderation, and then gives his Teeming reafons again it. I do not interpret it of any prefent explicite Faith in Chrift as the Meflìah ; but now this conviction , that fo evidently appeared, did evidence them to be in an hopeful way, and with that Scribe not to be farre from the Kingdome of Cod , and therefore he takes his opportunity , and preffeth it on to come into the way ofBeleevers in Chrift Jefus. Fourthly, He faith [your children] is expounded of their In- fant- children; yea, it is carried as if of them only. To this is fufficient fpoken,. Chap. 37. As for that which followes; They would have the Promife to be to their children as theirs whether they be called or no ; which can be verified only in their fence oftheir Infants fhb they maintain that even the children of Beleevers are not in Covenant ; the Promife is not to them, they are not vifible Church-members when they come to yeares of difcretíon, except they be called in their owne perfons and accept the call. Children as theirs, whether they be called or no, is (he knowes with us) a contradiction; Children are called in their Parents call , and we fay, they are in Covenanr,the Promife is made to them; they are vifible Church- members till they reject the Covenant, and deny their Mernberfhip. Fifthly, He fayes, Whereas it is urged , that when it is faid the Pronti fe is to all -that are afarre of , even as many as the Lord our God fhall call which is expounded of the.Gentiles , it is not added to their children,: To this in the fame Chaprer fufficient is fp ken. His fixth about Matter Stephens his interpretation of Repent,fal is in with his tenth. E e e Seventhly, ?,93
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