41 2 The Birth- Pr ;viledge and Co enant- holine fe Ch.4 51 all Nations, baptizing them, &c. do comprize Infants in them as well as men ofyears; Infants ferving to make up a Nation as well as Parents. The Infants of Nineveh did make a confiderable par- ty of the City of Nineveh. The Infants of any Nation make up a part of the Nation and the Nation where they came was to be'. difcipled, and baptized, And that Infants are here comprehended, farther appeares by this Argument. In the lame fente and latitude as Nation was taken in refpec`f of the Covenant of God , when, the Covenant and Covenant- initiating Sacrament was reffrained.to that one only Nation, where their commiffion was firft limited ; In the fame fenfe it is to be taken (unleffe the Text expreffe thé contrary) now the commiflion is enlarged. This cannot be denied of any that will have the Apo lles to be able to know Chri.fts meaning , by his words in this enlarged commifion:. But Nation then (as is confeffed,) did comprehend all in the Nation, in refpeft of the Covenant , and nothing is expreffed in the Text to the contrary; therefore it is to be taken in that latitude to comprehend Infants, This Argument hath ftrength from that of the Apoftle, Arîs 3. 25, _re are the children of the Prophets, and of the ('venant which Cod made rrith our fathers , faying unto Abraham and in thy feed'' fhall all the k ndreds of the earth be hided. As it was with the kin- dred of Abraham in refpeft of Covenant-holineffe ; fo it is with all kindreds of the earth , they joyntly make one party in the Covenant. But Infants of Abrahams kindred were in the Cove nant, and of the Nation, in refpe &of Covenant- bleffedneffe. But it will be Paid, that an exception of Infants is implied, in that all ofthe Nation mufl be difcipled before they be baptized: But In.. fanti are not capable of being difcipled ; and fo they are made unca- pable of Baptifne. I anfwer._ . r. Here is implied that they are of capacity to be Difciples , in that Chrift fends to difciple Nations, and they ferve to make up the Nation, 2. It is the way of Scripture-fpeaking of an univerfality of a people in a Land, expreffely to except Infants in cafe they be to be excepted , as we fee in the judgement that befell Ifrael in the wil- derneffe,, to the cutting off of chofe that came out of the Land of Egypt, Numb i4.. 38. And in the Covenant entered by the body of the Nation of all degrees and fexes at their' returne from Babylon,
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