The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

Another noble Prerogative belongeth to the outward¹ Church, that they purchase not only this dignity for themselves, by the profession of their faith, but their children also are borne free Burgesses of this City; as the promise is made to ⁿABRAHAM, I will be the God of thee, and of thy seed: for as the Apostle saith,³ Rom. 11. 16. If the Root be holy, so are the branches also. Else-where doth the same Apostle, Gal. 2. 15. oppose Jews by nature to sinners of the Gentiles, but to show that from the very birth, the children of believing parents, are within the outward Covenant of the forgiveness of sins. And this is not to be restrained to such children only, as are borne of both parents believers, but if any one of them be of the Church, so is the child likewise: for the unbelieving man is sanctified by the believing wife, and the unbelieving woman is sanctified by the believing husband, so far, as to make our children that otherwise were unclean, to be holy, 1. Cor. 7. 14.

Another noble Prerogatiue belongeth to the outward¹ Church, that they purchase not onely this dignity for themselues, by the profession of their faith, but their children also are borne free Burgesses of this Citie; as the promise is made to ⁿABRAHAM, I will be the God of thee, and of thy seed: for as the Apostle saith,³ Rom. 11. 16. If the Root be holy, so are the branches also. Else-where doth the same Apostle,