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

1. To the Major, with the fore-mentioned distinction of Right, applied as before, I grant it. 2. To the Minor I say, God owneth them as his people by internal consent and covenanting, who indeed are so: and he owneth them as his People by outward Covenanting, or Expression or Profession of consent, who are such: But those that have neither of these, but only profess some shorter faith, or consent to some other Covenant, or but part of this, he will not own in either relation, nor would have them taken into the Communion of his Church. Nor do you prove any such thing; for Deut. 26.18. is so much against you, that I marvel you were not troubled at the citing of it: For that Text alone is enough to confute all your pompous allegations out of the Old Testament from ⟨p. 179⟩the Church state of the Jews. The words are [Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his Statutes, and his Commandments and his Judgements, and to hearken to his voice: And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, &c.] Do you think that they that in heart consent that the Lord be their God, and to walk in his ways, &c. have not saving faith? Then there was no such thing then on the earth. And if they had such faith, who sincerely consented, then they Professed such faith that Professed such consent. And the word [avouching showeth that it was present profession, and not only a promise for some distant futurity. This Argument therefore is but like the rest.