4a 6 The Birth-Friviledge and Covenantholinef Ch 446. which force weakly enough, have urged for the contrary. Let us' .enquire ? ho the Apoflle meanes by a Beleever, and who he means'' by an unbeieever, and this will Toone be decided if we look to the cafe propounded by letter from the Corinthians, Which he there refolves, and anfweristheir fcruples ; That is confeft to be marriage hetweetae a Chrifban and a Heathen a profeffed Beleever and aninldel,a man removed from an Infidel,(to take upon him the name ofChrift?,is there a Beleever,& manyof thefe,even inCorint h, were men in finne. They that will have the Beleever there to fet out only a 3uflified and fan6ified perfon, they moil by unb,eleever meane all unfant ified perfons, and fo the cafe propounded and fatis ied, is,whether a regenerate perfon fandified by the Spirit, married to one that gives not full or at leaft liopefull evidences òf fan>dlification,may continue a marriage- fociety ?whether a man of yob integrity might have lived with fuch a wife to whom _yob was joyned ? a thing that was never yet brought into tiueflion, either by Jew or Chrifliar;and altogether unworthy of an Aponies determination.The thing is plaíne,that as Infants have right to Ba Amplificaçìti prifme, fo all the Infants of thofe parents that nomine ten tar are onof this po, Cchriflians, have right to Baptifrne. To amplifie this in force par- tition, ticulars,and if it may be,to make it more cleare to doubtingChri -- ftians. pirft, a.life in diflruul of God,and rebellion againft God; Provo. king hire to the bight ft punillhmcnt of the parents, doth not diveR the child of the title tothe Covenant,and.interefi in theSacrament of initiation into the number of Chrifiiaus. For proof of this look upon that ac`s of rofyna, when the people were got out of- the Wilderneffe, and were brought into the Land of Canaan, Jofb.,.. "5. 6, 7. The children of Ifrael Waled, fourth+ yeers in the Wil dernefe, till all the people that were men of warre that cam out of Egypt were confumed, becattfe they obeyed not the voice ofhtLord;. zind the children. Which he railed up in their fead, them did Joflbua circumcif ;forthey.were uncircumcifed,they had not circumcifed then in the way ; you fee what the fathers were,yet the children 7ofhtea ordc red to be circumcifed; concerning their converfation,the pa- rents were enemies, but as touching the elation, theehoice made of God, the iflue is to be numbered amongthebeloved. Who had a worfe father then r ofiah, yet where was there a better tonne? a circumcifed man, who in youth began to _feek:the: God of his fa- t hcr.DAvid,_2 cchron,34 3,; Secondly,,
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