Ch.47 . of the ifite of Beleevers. curre in a joynt way to communicate a Covenant- intereft ; but his queftion may have an eafie anfwer. I demand in titles of Honour,and inheritance of Lands ,-which men claime by diffent from their Anceflors, where it is that they flay ? It will be foon anfwered that they flay when they can rife no higher, to finde any other Predeceffours vefled ii fuch honours, or fuch inheritance. Some can make no claime ,atall from Parents, they are the firft of their houfe, of honour or in- heritance. And this was the cafe of Abraham , he had no inter - eft from Terah; fuch was the cafe of the Primitive Converts, and fuch is the cafe of the Indians , that now by a gracious providence are converted by the Englifb. Some can go no farther then their immediate Parents; they were the firft in honour or that gain- ed an inheritance to their houfe. This was the cafe of Ifaac, and of thofe children called by the Apoflle, holy, i Car. 7. i 4. and will be the cafe of the children of the Indian Converts; others can rife to the third or fourth generation ; others can go as high as the Conqueft; fome can claime beyond the Conqueft, by deeds beyond date : fo itis with Chriftians , they may go as high as Anceftours havebeen in Chriftianity. Eightly, If by vertue of that Promi(e Predeces7'ours may without the immediate Parent give right to Bapti /me, then the children of an immediate `Parent apoftatized from the_Faith, and excommunicated from the Church, may be baptized. I fhall fpeak firft to his inftance in the excommunicate perfon, and as to that readily yield his conclufion , that I may baptize the childe of an excommunicated perfon againfl which he thus farther reafons. If I may baptize the children of an excommunicate parent, then I may baptize the children of one who ù no Member ofa Church (for fo is the excommunicate perfon) ; fo confequently the children ofa Turke or Indian, for they are no Members of a Church, and the excemmuni- catedperfon is no other, in reJ5eït of his communion in Church-pri- viledïes. I arifwer, If we might go by an Independent principle that excommunication is only out of a particular vifible Congregati- on then the reply were eafie that being thus cco ;emu irate, his right in the Church univerfal vifible Hill remaines , am, into this it is that we admit Members by Baptifme, i Cor. r 2.13. L 11 ther-- 44i 8., The intereft of Infants of ex- communicate perfòns in Ba. ptifine.
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