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

It is Objected that this Text determineth of one way of Covenant-Right to Infants, but doth not thereby deny all other. Answ. 1. It is peremptory in the Negative [Else were your children unclean] as well as in the Affirmative [but now are they Holy.] 2. It therefore excludeth expressly all other ways of interest in the Covenant by Birth-Privilege: Else how could that Negative be true? But I confess it doth not exclude all means else of an after acquisition or reception of Covenant-Right: For he that is born unclean, may become by purchase or contract the child of a Believer▪ or at age may believe himself; And then he ceaseth to be unclean. 3. At least it seems yielded by them, that if both Parents be unbelievers, the child can have no Right A• theirs or on the•r account.

It is Objected that this Text determineth of one way of Covenant-Right to Infants, but doth not thereby deny all other. Answ. 1. It is peremptory in the Negative [Else were your children unclean] as well as in the Affirmative [but now are they Holy.] 2. It therefore excludeth expresly all other wayes of interest in the Covenant by Birth-Priviledge: Else how could that Negative be true? But I confess it doth not exclude all means else of an after acquisition or reception of Covenant-Right: For he that is born unclean, may become by purchase or contract the child of a Believer▪ or at age may believe himself; And then he ceaseth to be unclean. 3. At least it seems yielded by th•m, that if both Parents be unbelievers, the child can have no Right A• theirs or on the•r account.

Its Objected that this was true of the Corinthians, whose Ancestors •ere Infidels▪ and themselves the first Converts, their children were unclean, if one of them were not a believer but it holdeth not of them that had pious Ancestors. Answ. 1. This