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

ARGUMENT. V.

Mr. Blake. Those that are the servant of God, whom God owns as his servants, have right in his sight to be received into his house, and to be entitled to the Privileges of his Church. This we think should not be denied, and that God will take it ill if any shall deny it. But men short of that faith which Justifies, are owned of God as his servants, as is clear, Lev. 25.41, 42. There every Israelite that was sold to any of the Children of Israel, and his Children are called of God his servants, and that as Israelites; of which a great part were void of that faith which Justifies. Therefore those that are short of faith which Justifies, have right in the sight of God to be thus received. This Argument me thinks might be of force with Mr. Baxter. When he had urged it for proof, that infants are servants and ought to be baptized, he add• pag. 18. [is not here direction enough to help us to judge of the mind of God, whether infants are his Disciples and Servants or no? Doth not God call them his servants himself? What more should a man expect to warrant him to do so? Men call for plain Scripture, and when they have it, they will not receive it: so hard is it to inform a forestalled mind.] If God took such care upon that account, that they should not be held in bondage under any of his People, he takes like care that they should not be kept from the Society of his People.

Mr. Blake. Those that are the servant of God, whom God owns as his servants, have right in his sight to be received into his house, and to be entitled to the Priviledges of his Church. This we think should not be denyed, and that God will take it ill if any shall deny it. But men short of that faith which Justifies, are owned of God as his servants, as is clear,