Ch,46 of the ia:e of Beleevers. Secondly, misbelief in a parent divefls not the iffae of this birch- priviledge; though the father erre in the faith, yet the childe is not to be ¡hut out of the number of beleevers. Welhave in this particular the Apoille for a precedent, had misbelief in the parent denuded the childe of this priviledge. Saint Taut had not beene a 7ew by stature, but an ieretick, or Secary by nature, being be- fore converfion a Pharifee,and the fonne of a Pharifee; críbe was a name of office,but Pharifee the name of a Se6t,and therefore Chrilt warnes to beware of the leaven that is,of the Doocrine of the Pha- rifees, as of the Sadduccs ; such was Taub parentage, and yet by defcent and off- ¡prim, he is of the people of the jewtes.. What we fay of Phariíees,isas true ofSadduccs; It is not to be doubted but they were circurncifed perfons, and entitled their children ac- cording to the Direaory in Scripture for Circus. ors as ap- pears by their embodying of themfelves with the people of the Jtwes, Matth, 22.23, Mils 23. 6, The moft ftria of Pharifees took them into their fociety, which they had not done, had they not been men of the Circumcifion, we fee the accusation charg- ed on Peter on this occàfìon, Mils xr. 2, 3, A man tranf- mito not his errors, nor his vices no more then he Both his graces. Thirdly, ignorance of needfulí truths, in a parent dorh not di- yeti the childe of this priviledge. l hofe were the people of God (and therefore brought forth children to God) that did pe- rifh for lack of knowledge, Hofea 4. 6. that went into capti- vity for lack of knowledge, 'fay 5. A reverend brother, giving his reafons why he is among his brethren fingular in this point, not baptizing all borne in his Parifh ; one maine one is the g:offe ignorance among them, and that (as he faies) not in Cumberland, ,and thofe parts, but in Ejfex, fuck, that if he fhould print, his dea- der would fcarce beleeve it were pofble to be true ; To which i -only íáy, I wi¡h that our own experience in the places where we live,did give us occafìon of tu':pition , that any wrong is done them. Therefore to let the truth pafre unquellioned, I would only . wìfh him to conGder,whether there might not have been aour;d the like in Corinth,. that Church of the Saints, r Cor, t5.3 Some have not the knowledge of cod, 1 f eak this to your fhame. Whe- ther there he might nor have found the-like among the illumina- ted Hebrews, were-not there chofe that were dullf hewing, flat when for the time they ought to-be teachers, they had need that one i teach
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