4 I o The Birth Prìviledge and Covenant- holínej Ch.44 neffe, as he expreffes himfelf, Examen, pag. 159. To deny Baptifine to thefe in his'account, can be no other then, Sacriledge. This profeflion gives them intereft in God by way ofvilible communion ; children with them are feparated for God and filed (as we have heard) holy ; If Mafter Tombes yield them this intereft, then he cannot avoid this charge of Sacriledge, they are fervants of God,and of his Family : In cafe he deny it, he muff leave them without God, and fo without Elope fo that of neceflïty one will follow , that either he robbes God of them be- longing to him , or denying their intereft in him, he doomes them to défrudion. I here expec$ Matter Tombes his paflìon, but defpaire of his reafon ; The force of Arguments extorts.all that i fpeak ; let Mr. Towhee anfwer with Arguments , and not with pa ion. If they have no intereft in God, then they perifh ; If they have their interef, then they are Sacrilegioufly with -held. Many have obferved how God bath followed the fin of Sacri- ledge, above other fins with his judgements; but inflances can be given of no piece of Sacriledge, fo followed by the band of heaven, as this of deteining Infants from Iiaptifine. Mr. Tombes bath heard not a few; and it may well move pitty in his Reader to take notice of his anfwer ; no confent of Hiflory nor authority of men of mof eminent piety can work his belief of fuch a hand of God, giving up fo many of his party to fuch,abominatians, I (hall to that which he hath heard from Mailer Mar/ha/ and Nlafter xæ éntzntia tancuf ntent in Baxter,adde only one tefimony of Martine Bucer in his Dedica- vexit jam erro, tory Epiftle before his Comment on the Evangelifts , relating ram fclii fma to the dor`frine of Antipaedobaptifine, he faith, Which opinion hatb turn agmen , ut brought fuch an heap ofErrors, and Schi; naes , that there v_ nothing zrìbil de ui1is f i fo abhorrent from reafon,can be read of any of the Hereticks c f former reriorum tempo- times, which death not been in foure years ace revived, and f ound fol- rum Hcereti lowers, that this alone- may render that root puff eeted to all that fol legatur tam i . ixranum pod lots after áodline Ire , from, whence Etch unhappy branches have non fuerit re- (premed, and out of which they have budded. duelum prox>mo quadriennio , fcoique'rurfum f ltatores invencrit, ut vel unum hoc pietatis fludiofis radium bane fùfíel1art, morit3 reddere debuerit ex qua tam.infauffagermina Jippululdrunt. Et CHAP.
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