A treatise of faith divided into two parts. The first showing the nature, the…A treatise of faith diuided into two parts. The first shewing the nature, the…

The acts of faith in this particular be these,¹ and such like.

1. 1The acts of faith in this particular.

First, It calleth to remembrance the free and gracious covenant, which God hath made with the believing parents and their posterity. I am thy God, ¹and the God of thy seed. For the promise is made unto you, and to your children, and to all that are a far off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call: which covenant, as it is made with the parents and their seed, so doth the faith of the parent apprehend the promise of the covenant for himself and for his seed. And this is the ground of that tender, which a Christian m•kes of his Child unto holy Baptism. For by natural generation the Children of believing parents are defiled with sin, and so under wrath: but the are holy by covenant and free acceptation, the believing⟨p. 420⟩ parent embracing the merciful promise of God for himself, and for his posterity. Infants are not borne Christians by natural birth, but made Christians by virtue of the covenant, God promising to accept them, upon offer made unto him by the parents.

First, It calleth to remembrance the free and gratious couenant, which God hath made with the belieuing parents and their posteritie. I am thy God, ¹and the God of thy seed. For the promise is made vnto you, and to your children, and to al that are a farre off, euen as many as the Lord our God shal call: which couenant, as it is made with the parents and their seed, so doth the faith of the parent apprehend the promise of the couennt for himselfe and for his seed. And this is the ground of that tender, which a Christian mkes of his Child vnto holy Baptisme. For by naturall generation the Children of belieuing parents are defiled with sinne, and so vnder wrath: but the are holy by couenant and free acceptation, the belieuing