Ch.4 .3. of the iice of Belee=vers. 'let upon it. His reafon is worthy of obfervation: This is manife/p from the forme of words, ver f. ; 8. which if they had exorefl a right to 6aptifine by vertue of the Promife fbould have been in the indica- ->tive mood in fuck a forme as this ; you are to be baptized, you may be ,baptized , you have right to it, the Adini fler ought to do it ; but the Words are in the imperative mood , exhorting them and perf»ading them to it, He bath quite fotgotten , that the words holding out their right, are in the indicative mood d ¡c v a' ¡sip i27evn,sAi r, aßì aois 7V Yois vcw "v. For the Promife is to you and your children. And -here'is a notable correetion of the Apoffle, he fhould have faid, if this had been his meaning, you muff be baptized and Le fayes, Arife, and be baptized. Laflly, He fayes, In the paraphrafes which ufualy in their dif- putes Pædobaptifls make of A6ts. z. 38. 9. they put not any thing to anfwer the terme [repent] as if it flood for a cipher, but para- phrafe it thus, re may be baptized, you and your children ; for the Promife is to you andyour children. His fixth exception was again'ft Mailer Stephens interpretation of the word repent, verf. 38. as if it were as much as to fay , Covenant for your ¡elves andyour chil- dren ; and here he complaines that it is left for a cipher. And he thinks he bath difcovered the reafon of this Omiflion. The put- ting the word repent first, and be baptized after doth manifefl- ly overthrow their paraphrafe of a right to Baptifine from the word of Promife, and fI ew that the particle, [For] doth not prove a right to Baaptifine, but pre fre to a duty; andloch a duty as is to have repent- ance precedent, and that in every perlon that is to be baptized. I con - feffe it preffeth to a duty, and fuch a duty as is to have repentance precedent in them that at that time were his hearers, to intereft themfelves, and with themfelves their children in this priviledge; But right and duty do not (boulder out one the other, but very E well (land together; encouraging to a duty which is a priviledge as well as a duty , he fitly makes ufe of their intereft as a motive. And Mailer Tombet might fee that the Apofl:le puts the Promife in a greater latitude then he urgeth repentance; He fpeaks to his hearers, when he (ayes repent ; and he tells them , that th Promife is to them and to their children with them:Whereas he pref. feth the precedency of the word, repent , to the cc4nmand of be- ing baptized, and in his Exercit. pag. 9.. faith, Peter doth ,x bort to Repentance and Baptifme together and in the fill place pc, - Eee z fw -d s 395
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