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

The Judgement of the present Guides of our Churches (as to the most) is easy to be known by the Conclusions of the late Assembly at Westminster. In the larger Catechism they say [baptism is not to be administered to any that are out of the visible Church, and so strangers to the Covenant of promise, till they profess their Faith in Christ, and obedience to him: but Infants descending from Parents, either both, or but one of them, professing faith in Christ, & obedience to him, are in that respect within the covenant, and to be baptized.] Here you may see whom they take to be of the visible Church, and in that respect within the covenant. 1. The words [professing faith in Christ] if they were alone do signify a justifying faith profest. For though [to believe in Christ] may sometime signify a lower kind of Faith, yet analogum per se positum, stat pro famosiori significato. 2. But that there may be no doubt of their meaning, they add the necessity also of a profession of Obedience to Christ, to show that it is the working faith which must be profest. And it is not only a Promise of Obedience for some distant futurity, but the Profession of it, which they make necessary. And I conceive that he that professeth faith in Christ, and obedience to him, professeth that which will prove saving, if he have but what he professeth.

The Judgement of the present Guides of our Churches (as to the most) is easie to be known by the Conclusions of the late Assembly at Westminster. In the larger Catechism they say [baptism is not to be administred to any that are out of the visible Church, and so strangers to the Covenant of promise, till they profess their Faith in Christ, and obedience to him: but Infants descending from Parents, either both, or but one of them, professing faith in Christ, & obedience to him, are in that respect within the covenant, and to be baptized.] Here you may see whom they take to be of the visible Church, and in that respect within the covenant. 1. The words [professing faith in Christ] if they were alone do signifie a justifying faith profest. For though [to believe in Christ] may sometime signifie a lower kind of Faith, yet analogum per se positum, stat pro famosiori significato. 2. But that there may be no doubt of their meaning, they add the necessity also of a profession of Obedience to Christ, to shew that it is the working faith which must be profest. And it is not only a Promise of Obedience for some distant futurity, but the Profession of it, which they make necessary. And I conceive that he that professeth faith in Christ, and obedience to him, professeth that which will prove saving, if he have but what he professeth.