Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

Obj. Joshua is commanded by God to Circumcise them, and accordingly he doth Circumcise all the people: yet no doubt many of them were Notoriously ungodly. Josh. 5. Answer 1. Joshua did but command it to be done. 2. I have given the reason why all should be Circumcised. 3. It is unproved that any one of them were know to Joshua to be ungodly. To clear this further, I will add two more observations.

Obj. Joshua is commanded by God to Circumcise them, and accordingly he doth Circumcise all the people: yet no doubt many of them were Notoriously ungodly. Josh. 5. Answer 1. Joshuah did but command it to be done. 2. I have given the reason why all should be Circumcised. 3. It is unproved that any one of them were know to Joshuah to be ungodly. To clear this further, I will add two more observations.

13. Note that all those that were charged with Murmuring, Unbelief, &c. in the wilderness, were all destroyed there, and also that for 40 years their Children had been uncircumcised. Only Caleb and Joshua were left. So that those of 40 or 30 or 20 years of age must be Circumcised on the account of their own Covenanting, and not plead the right of their Parents.

14. Note also, that the very examples of Gods Judgements do intimate that Notorious Ungodliness was not so common among them as some imagine. Multitudes are thought very Godly now, that murmur in lesser straits than they were then in, and that are palpably guilty of much unbelief, or less temptations. All Israel was put to the worse for the sake of one Achan, that plundered no man unjustly, but only thought to rescue some desirable treasures from the flames: I wish that no soldiers would now do worse that are reputed extraordinarily Godly, and are never blemished by such actions in their own eyes or any others. I will not stand to add more, because I have been so long.