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¹Else where he demandeth, whether a wicked father may have a good child, a papist or heretic father a believing child? Yes verily may they (saith he) So may have, and have the Turks, and Jews, and yet their children are not to be received, unless their faith doth first appear by confession. But, you say, the papists and heretics be baptised, and so are not the Jews and Turks? Their baptism, being cut off from the Church, maketh them as much strangers unto it, as was Ismael, & Esau, which albeit they were circumcised, yet, being cast out of the Church, they were no more to be accounted to be of the body of Gods people, then those which never, were in the Church. The same author, in his next Reply to the same Doctor reasoning out of Beza in his epistles, that the papists are to be compared with the Israelites with fell away from true Religion,² and not with the Idumaeans, answereth. This cannot help him, unless he first show that the infants of those Apostates were lawfully circumcised. For, if they were not circumcised, by Gods order and constitution, but rather at the lust and pleasure of those, which, being fallen away from the covenant, ceased not to put to the seal, as if they had been still within the covenant, it followeth, that, in this respect, there is no more succour for the papists, in such resemblance with such Israelites, then when they are matched with the Ishmaelites or Idumaeans.

¹Else where he demandeth, whether a wicked father may have a good child, a papist or heretick father a beleiving child? Yes verily may they (sayth he) So may have, and have the Turckes, and Jewes, and yet their children are not to be received, unles their fayth doth first appeare by confession. But, you say, the papists and hereticks be baptised, and so are not the Iewes and Turcks? Their baptisme, being cut off from the Church, maketh them as much strangers unto it, as was Ismael, & Esau, which albeit they were circumcised, yet, being cast out of the Church, they were no more to be accounted to be of the body of Gods people, then those which never, were in the Church. The same authour, in his next Reply to the same Doctor reasoning out of Beza in his epistles, that the papists are to be compared with the Israelites with fell away from true Religion,²