f fittmtion 4na'dai tn<ats0I,. faithfull. r.Cor.y. x4.Thevnbeleeteinghufbandisfan&ifted by the wife,andihè vnbeleeaai;sgwifetr!ar<, tfe,áby the hisfband, elfewere your childrenvncleane, but nowtheyare holy.R firflfruitsbe holy, f is thewhole limpet andifthe roote h bory,(oarethe 6ranches.Gen. 17.7. IWillefteblfli mycouenát betweene meand thee,a.gad thyfeeds after thee, in t heirgenerations,forancarer- laflrng co-tenant,tobe Godvita thee,atsdthyfeedafter thee. i 3..Hethat isborne in thinehoufe,&hethat isbought withmoney,mtrfi weeds becircurncifed:fömy couenantflail be inyourflefhjaran(aerial long cottenrtnt.A6t. t 6.3 t . Ì hey find, BeleerreintheLard lefäzs;ard the! flialt beptaced,andthy3hole hournold, Quefl. Howare the children offaithfulI parents in thecotenant? Anfivcr. Holyparents are two waies to bee confidered. Firfi,as they were the fonnes ofthe lint Adarn,and fo areas yet partly carnall. In this eaatethey in like fort doe beget their rotaries the childrenof wrath.For the father beget- tetha forme, not as he ii a good Irian, but limplyas aman ; and thereforebe- ing impure,hee muff needes beget that which is impure. Secondly, ,yee.mufi confider the parents as they are the footlesofGod, engraffed into thefecond Adam. In this effate though they cannot deriue faithvnto theirpotleritie, (for the formes ofGodarenot made filchby naturali generation, but by the adop- tionofGod theFather)yet may they beleeueboth for then;felues and others, accordingto the tenourofthecouenant ofgrace: as Adamdid finne both for himfelfand others:&as parents inbargainesdo couenant both for themfelues and theirheires after,them, Hence it is that Paul faith, that the parentsare like vntotheñrft f cites whichdoefitrfno:, thewhole ltinrpe.Sc then,the faithofthe parentsrnaketh thofe their fonnes to beaccounted in thecouenartswhich by realm oftheir age doe not yet aatiallybeltctie. To bee baptized into thenameoftheFather,&c. after the recent oftheout. ward figneofwafhinr is tobe madeone ofGods fainilie,thich is his Church, and tobee partaker o the .priuiledQes thereof. 6. The .%ngell hich hathdelitieredmePinall e;siil,'blefh thechildren, andlet ray namebee nat ed upon therm,and the nameofmy f, t hers, l (yallärind lwhrlt, that they.nraygrow askg, intomull itude,inthe mddef ífthe enh.Eflyf..r.lIthttdayIlf,:Fllfesren womentake holdaloneHaanfäyirr ;1 ,rilii care,curo,=nÉ-read,androe:nití'ware our ozonegarrnents :only let vs6e calledIy r h;' nrti oe,ar d take awayour reproch. By this iris manrfe ì,that in this ctiafhing'ofb<tptifrne; there isfe4led&pro. poundeda marrreiloua folemne couenant and contraa : Iirfl, of Godwith the baptized, in that God the Father vourchfafc'd to rcceiue him into favour, the Sonne to redeeme him,the holysbo( I_ topuriheandregeneratehim :fecond- ly,ofthebaptized withGod, who prornifeth to acknowledge, inuocate, and worfl;ipnone othergod,but.thetrue=lehouah, Which istheFaher,Sonne, and holyGhoft. The external' andyifiblcmatter afbaptifine,is water : for the minifler may notbaptize withanyother liquor,but oncly withnatural' water. This was the iudgement of the Primitiue Church. For whenas a certaine *t z min f er
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