1 c The Barth- Prìviledge and Covenant- holinef Ch,4 3f 1 Se vent hly, He faith, And in like manner he klds the command.g [ Be baptized every one of yonj'in a Covenant -fenfe as he calls it (that u_, a neW devifed non-fenfe, fuch as we have no Ditlionary yet to in. terp -et words by) be baptized you andyour children. I am lure here is a non -fenfe devife to talke of Dîc`lionaries does C alepin or Scapula, Rider or Thoma [7ui help us to compare Covenant and Seale, Promifes and Sacraments ?. Eighthly,. He faith, Some ivouMpa ff effe people with this conceit as if Peters (Cope were to take away by ve rf.39. CM objetlion or f cruple they mould make, If We be baptized our [elves, our children [hall be in worfe cafe, in refpetl of the priviledge our children had in the former k difpenjation of the Covenant, When they had the feale of the Covenant, if they be not to 6e- baptized alfa; and that he anfwers them by aJfuring, .them, that in this difpenfation alfo their children. Were in Covenant, and were to have the feale of the Covenant, And then addes, There is not a Word of any filch fcruple in the Text ; nor is it likely that they, were follicitout about fuck an imaginary poor priviledge oftheir chi!. dren. I am of his minde that there was -no fuch fcruple in their, heads, Mailer Tombes his unhappy conceit ofcafting the feed out of Covenant was not then in being, though I think the rea fon that he gives is little to purpofe : Yet I fay this fcruple raif- ed by Antipædobaptifls, and heightened by Mailer Tombes as in . many other, fo in this Text is removed. Ninthly, He (ayes, They all do molt 'grof ely abufe the meaning of the Apofile, in interpreting the inference of Apoflle, fignifsed by the particle [ yd p, for, verf. 39.J which they would have to to this, you have right and Warrant to be baptized; For the Promife t to you and your children, as if the illative particle did inferre a warrant, or right for them and theirs to be baptized; where at the thin? inferred is not any right , which in a legal! way theymightelaime;`'hit is a plaiue motive in a marall way urged to perfwade them to be baptized. Mailer T ombes does groff'ely abufe his judgement in thisway of refutation as though the right in which they food, could be no Topick , from which in a moral way the Apoftle might perfwade them to Baptifme. When Shechaniah perfwaded. Ezra to the re- formation of the marriage of ftrange, wives in there words, Arife for the matter Olemgeth unto thee, Ezra. 10.4._ Here: was a motive in a morall way to call upon him to do it, and anArgument in- ferred, that it lay upon Ezraas_&duty by command fromGod to. let,
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