41.6 The Birth - Priviledge and Covenant-holineffe Ch.45 objects againftMafter Cbleman an Affembly -man in his Malé di -:I cis, and Mafter Martin Blake, in his Anfwer to Matter Cóx; yet fayes that the fubjec} matter of the Command as well as the Grammar ufe of the word , proves females to be included : But then his expreffe formali Command is. loft they are not expreft but included only, and by confequence,which will not .be denied, either to Mafter Coleman or Matter Blake. He farther (ayes; that I Cor. i o. 17. is an expre jl e command ín formal/ termes of Worreenr receiving the Lords Sapper ; we being many,, are one bread, and one . body, for we are partak. rs of one bread. I demand of MafterTornbes, whether the Apoftle fpeaks in the perfon of Chriftians, or in the perfon of women ? not of women lure , for he takes in himfelf, and he was a man and then the formality of an expreffe Example falls. When it is fail that the whole houfe of ifrael is circumcifed in flefh, Matter Tombes will not yield that there is a proof, not by any confequence that women, though of the houfe of If.ael,were virtually circumcifed: but all partaking of one bread , there is a proof formal and ex- preffe, that they were at the Lords Supper. He bring As 2C.7. that theDifciples on the f rit day of the reek came together to break bread. Here is an example as expreffe and formall: Matter T ombes cannot infallibly prove by help ofconfequence , much le ffe expreffely that there was a woman there. At that night meeting there might be none but men as at the firft inftitution; It can never be an expreffe example till it be made to appear that none are Difciples but women, Thirdly, The examples that we have of a whole houfhold, be- ing baptized ; if Matter Tombes had them in hand, would be fuf ficiently formal ; but any thing will ferve as an expreffe proof, when he bath a minde to affirme it , and nothing will ferve to e- vince it by confequence, when he hath a minde to deny!it. But fure as Difciples are women, fo fure families have children.There are Families without children, and there are Difciples that are not women. The Commiflion is to "difciple Nations, and baptize them. Providence bath happily ordered (notwithftanding force would have Nations difcipled, but force called out of Nations for Di- fciples, the Primitive times Ihoufholds were .baptized, without mention of exclufion ofchil- dren,
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