40° The.Birth-Priviledge and Covenant- holinef e C 44 otherwife, and now taking my kale of this piece (having no more occaflon in this Trae, to d -tale with it in recompence of that In- terrogation put in his title -page, job 6.25, 1 (hall minde him more pertinently of another, yob 38.2. Who is this that darkeneth know- ledge by words without underflanding?- Infant baptifm cannot he charged with will- wruthip. CHAP. XLIV. The rvith- holding infants of Chriflian parents from Ea- Fti f me is the fin of Sacriledge. Ence farther followes, that the Prohibition of Infant -Bap- tifme or with - holding them from thatOrdinance that are the file of Chriflians,is the finne of Sacrilcdge. This is plaine from the premiffes, They are the Lords, his heritage, Pfal, 127. 3. The Lords fervants, Levit. 25.42. holy ones, Rom, t t. x6, i Cor, y. 14. Children of the Covenant, At°fs 3. 25.interef'ed in the privi- ledges of the people of God, Mark to. 14. Therefore they are to be given to God, Cefar will account it a robbery, if that which is his due be denied ; God will account it a robbery, if that which is his be denied ; Render unto Cefar the things which are Cefars and unto God the things that are Gods, Match. 22.21. Matter Tombes in his Examen faflens the brand of will- worfhip on the praEtice ()fit, fince he rifes higher in his cenfure; But if Baptifme be any wor- (hip according to the minde of Chrill, then Infant baptifine is out of all danger or pofl'ibility of will- worfhip. In cafe (as I have told Mailer Tombes) Infants were not within the verge, yet theirBaptifine could be no wili- worfhip ; we fet not up the Or- dinance that we apply to them, but make application of the Ordi- ü nance that Chrift hath inflicuted ; In cafe they have no title, there is only a mifápplication of worfhip inilitured, and no devife of worfhip. To this-Mafter Tombes replies, Apol. pag. 151. and de- mands whether Infant- communion *ere- not mill- vorfhä p ? whether baptizing ofBB1lsWere not will- worfhipi yet thefiare but mifappli. cations of an inflituted ordinance to a wrong fubjel1.I anfwer, none of there were will- worfhip, nor yet the baptifme of the Horfe in
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