q.. t 4 The :firth - :Pine ledge andCovenant-hotnefje Ch.45 what purpofe I produced it puts it into the Index of his Exerci- tation, as an Argument ftanding of it Pelf for Infant- Baptifine. When I complaine of this in 'my Anfwer -as injurious, pag. 83. In his Apology he can no otherwife excufe it, but ayes, He might know my Exercitation fets dorm molt of the Arguments as they were urged in the conference With me : c.4nd fo was the reafon from lfay 49. 22. urgedin that conference as an Argument by it fey to my heft remembrance hew ever it was afterwards di/Poled in the Birth -Pri- viledge, Apol, p,ag.'Í47, I doubt not but Mr.Tombes abufes his memory ; who can believe that this Text in a fyllogiftical way was urged upon him from thence to conclude Infant - Baprifine; and a fyllogiftical forme he well remembers was exactly followed: after that difpute I found it in Gerard: Commonplaces, an Au- thour that is no meet object of his jeeres: I am lure I never ufed it, nor heard it from any other in the difputation : I .(hail trouble the Reader no farther, but referre him to my defence in my An- fwer, pag. 8 z. And for the Argument to evince the Infants of Difciples to be Difciples in the Dialed of Chrift jefus : I (hall referre the Reader to my Anfwer of Mailer 7 ombes, pag, 80, 8 r, 8 2. my reply to Mailer Blackwood, pag. 6, r 7,1 , r Q, 20. Mailer Tcmbes indeed bath fpakefomewhat by way ofreply to my An- fiver, Apol. pag. i 45. to which I (Mill here forbear to make any farther rejoynder ; Mailer Baxter bath pleafed to do it for me in his Treatife of Infants Church- MemberJhip, pag.22. only adding that the denial that Infants are within the verge of that commíßï -y on, Matth. 2 8.19. involves the Apostles and all that are employ- ed in their work in fuccefíìon, in a contradidìon. The Nations are to be Difcipled: Infants bear a part of the Nation ; and yet Thevaliditycf Infants are in an incapacity wholly of it. See Mr - ,Coos anfwer that objet$icn,'to the challenges of theAnabaptifls of Stafford, page 14. For that we have that part of the objection, that there is no example in New Te- nof example of I}ament- Scripture ofInfant- Baptifine. I anfwer. ptfineexamin- ' First, For an example of Baptifine with limit to any one pre- ed, cife number of years, or dayes ; we have but one that I know (if that) in Scripture, and that is of Chrift,who was (as is computed) about the age of thirty, when he was baptized , if this be preft and followed, all mutt at that alone be for Baptifine, and no other of any age nay be baptized. Mailer Tombes had many yeares above thirty over his head , when I heard him ley that he was ati r fiel
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