Ch.4.5. of the ite of Beleever,c. fatirfied, that though an Infant ought not to be baptized; yet being r baptized in Infancy when in yeares he did male preffffión o f the, l Glcl, this was valid, which he fpake in juftification of his own Baptifine ; though now (as Errour is creeping) of an Antipado- baptift, he is grown up to an Anabaptist, and :is -re- baptized, and in his `Pr.ecurfor glories in his fhame of re-,-baptizing others. Secondly, There are many things of which we make no que- Ilion, and yet we have no example of them I instanced in the trial of the fufpec$ed wife by the water of jealoufìe there is no example for it in all the Old Testament- Scripture; and for wo- mens receiving of the Lords Supper , there is not a particular in- ftitution, or any particular exprefeprecedentfor it in the New Testament; fee farther instances in Matter Cooke! Treatise before mentioned, pag. 2 r . They cannot give us any inflance of any one trained upby believing Parents for .Baptifine ,; and affoon as he could give an account, baptized ; not one childe of a Beleever brought up for Covenant, and not in Covenant. Matter Torobes goes about to give inflance of particular precedents for womens receiving the Lords Supper, Examen, pag. r12, and inftead of a,1 precedent urges the Apostles command, r Cor. ii. 28. as an ex - "I preffe command in formali termes for women, voQ- -,z1r& compre- hending both Sexes. To this I have replied in my Anfwer,pag.s 2. We are then furnished with an expref e command in termes as for mall, and with an example to boote of womens Circumcifion ; and fo the difference between Circumcision and Baptifine (fo often laid in the dish of Pxdobaptifts) here falls to the ground ; le on the Sabbath -day do circumcife, cti'Oproacv a man, John 7. 22. if á v9pwsJ a man on the Sabbath -day receive circumcifson , that t be Law of Motes fhould not be broken, John 7. 2 3 . Here is M fes his command, the Jewes pra&ice; with Chrifts approbation , in the fame comprehenfive latitude in regard of both Sexes as in Saint Paul for receiving of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. And if Arguments borrowed from Grammar ufe of words, be of . that force; you fee what you have proved, As an, Opev, is taken in one Sacrament, fo it is to be taken in another: But in the Sa- crament of Circumcifion it is limited to the male only to which accords that Logick -rule :, 'Onme etnalogrtm flans per fe, fat pr o lama fror. i anslogaro. To this authority of Saint John, Mr. Tomtits objels 415
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