APPENDIX. " vertue of the death and refurreB:ion of Chrill:: That the promife is '' made to believers and their feed ; and that the feed and pofl:erity of " the faithful, born within the church, have by their birth, interefl: ' " in the covenant, and right to the feal of it, and to the outward pri– " vileges of the church, under the gofpel, no lefs than the children of " Abraham in the time of the old tefl:ament; the covenant of grace, for " fubfl:ance, being the fame; and the grace of God, and the confolation '' of believers, more plentiful than before: That the Son of God ad– " mitted little children into his prefence, embracing and bleffing them, " faying, fir if ji<ch is the kingdom of God: That children, by baptifm, " are folemnly received into the bofom of the viGble church, difl:inguiih– " ed from the world, and them that are without, and united with belie– " vcrs i and that all who are baptized in the name of Chrifl:, do re-– " nounce, and by their baptifm, are bound to fight againll: the devil, '' the world, and the fleih: That they are chrifl:ia ns, and frederally ho– " ly before baptifm, and therefore are they baptized : That the inward ;, grace and vertue of baptifm, is not tied to th at very moment of '' time wherein it is adminifl:ered, and that the fruit and power there– ,, of reacheth to the whole courfe of our life; and that outward " baptifm is not fo neceifary, that through the want thereof the in– " fant is in danger of damnation, or the parents guilty, if they do not " contemn or neglect the ordinance of Chrill:, when and where it may " be had." In thefe, or the like infl:ruetions, the minifl:er is to ufe his own liber– ty and godly wifdom, as the ignorance or errors in the doclrine of bap– tifm, and the edification of the people ihall require. ' He is a!fo to admonijh all that are prifent, " To look back to their baptifm ; to repent of their fins againll: their " covenant with God; to fiir up their faith; to improve and make the •• right u(e of their baptifm, and of the covenant fealed thereby betwixt " God and their fouls." He is to exhort the parent, " To confider the great mercy of God to him and his child ; .,, to bring up the child in the knowledge of the grounds of the chrif– " tian religion, and in the nurture and admonition of the Lord ; and " to let him know the danger of God's wrath to himfelf and child, if " he be negligent; requiring his folemn p romife for the performance " of his duty."" VoL. II. 5 0 This
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