43g Z) `3,4 6. The Birth-Friviledge and Covenant- holinefe Ch.47 fecond Commandment (hewing mercy unto thotefandr, of them that love me, and keep my commandments, as though that were the alone Text we had, to ref} upon. Though much might be fpoke by way of Animadverfion of his Anftver, yet I forbeare. Ufe may be made of that Text to evidence that it is no unreafonable thing to carry on a priviledge fo farre , from generation:. to generation and an eafie reply made to molt that he bath fpoken ; Yet I build not a formali Argument upon it,' therefore I fhall not fpend time in it. His fecond , third and fourth Argument come in to fill up his Comment on that Text , and therefore might have been anfwers not Ar- guments. Fifthly, He fayes, that Text, r Cor. 7.T }, feemes to tie the federal holinefre of the childe to the immediate parent ; doth not fay, the child isholy,&y..c.6y vertue of a great grttndfiather.And fo it feems to me alfo. Thofe Corinthians being new Converts , and their ift'ue had none but immediate Parents, from whom they might claime their interefl; and by whom they might be entitled as the Parents themfelves did claime it from no Parents or Progenitours at all, their Anceftours having no power to communicate it ; Ifaac and lfhmael had right of Circumcifion only from their immediate Pa- rent; esl6raham had right immediately from God, Jacob and his poflerity had right from Parents, both mediate and immedi- ate and thefe Corinthians from their immediate Parents only, and their children from Parents mediate and immediate. Sixthly, He fayes. If that promife doth give this power to prede- ceffours, &c. then though there are none to educate this childe, (For the ignorant profane parents 'mil not but teach them how to break , the Covenant ; The predeceffours cannot, thy are dead, and are not;) yet we mull f Bale to this childe, &c. Where do you fee Churches take I care of fuct, children ? they mug be of Torre btgne f'e, and under fland- ing before the Church meddle with them ; the immediate profane per- /7n t brings him up in ignoriv ce and profaners f fe, neither will take care Ito have his childe inflrulied by the Church, as experience witnefeth ';too much ? Anfw, I un jerfland here the Covenant- promife, as Ails 2. 3 9. by vertue of which thefe Jewes were children of the Covenant, Aids 2, 35, and not with limit to the fecond Commandment; and then fpeak to it. r. Here
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