424 The Birth -f riviledge and Covenant- holinef e Ch. 46 controverfie. And out of thefe Premiffes he infers this Conclu- fon. From which I infer (faith be) that the Ancients and learned afore Zuinglius did account Infant-Baptifm to have been an un- written tradition, having reafon from Scripture not evident of it felf, but to be recehed from the determination of the Church. He tells Malfer Vines p. 25. of his Examen of reafoning à bacolo ad angelum, lure he bath wrefled the fiaffe out of his hands ; if Mailer Vines had been fo unhappya Difputant, he had not been once and again Jingled out forVontefl with fo eminent oppofites: I know no end or fuch a kinde of Inference, but that he may give the R eader a tafle in his Fore - runner, what Logick he may look for, when his Arguments fhall appear in their full Majefly. Some Papifls to ifet up unwritten traditions have (in contra - dition to rhemfelves) faftened Infant - Baptifm upon it, of which onely one lived before.,Zuinglius, Some Proteflant Writers brought in by head and fhoulders, every one of them living af- ter Zuinglius fpeak not one word to the purpofe : Ergo the learned beforeZuingliue did account Infant- Baptifm to be an unwritten tradition. Me thinks the Scripture - Arguments which may be found in Authors far above Zuinglius his (landing, as in Aquinas 3. part. vie ,68. art. 9. Augufl.de Baptif. contra Dona . 14.4. cap. 24. with others, might with more flrength conclude, that they relied on a written foundation, and were not fatisfied unwritten tradition. "CHAP. XLVI. The Children of all that are Chr lians in profefsion, are by venue of Covenant- jntereft, to be received into the Church by Baptifine. THen it farther followes by way of neceffary Corollarie, that according to the Parents Interefl in theCovenant,the childe bath Intereft in the Sacrament ofBaptifm; But all profef ing Pa -, rents feparate from Idols, and profefiing the worfhip of the true, God,thoug nothing more of a Chriflian be in them, in the lati. rude as hatheen fhewn, are in Covenant;the Infants ofall thefe then have interefl in Baptifm. The Major cannot be quefli- oned
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