Note also how the Scripture all along concurs. The seed of Cain are called the children of men, though its like they acknowledged God to be their Maker, who might have heard Adam tell them of the creation. And indeed it is ungodliness and wickedness that God drowned the World for. Yet are these children of Cain as an excommunicate brood, whom the children of God might not join with. The Infants of all the wicked of the world are drowned with their Parents in the Flood: The Infants of Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed with their Parents, who are said by Jude to suffer the vengeance of eternal fire, as an example (not of original sin) but to those that after should live ungodly. The children of the Egyptians are destroyed for their Parents sins, while Israels are preserved. The children of Da•han and Abiram, and their confederates were swallowed up with them for their Rebellion: yet did their parents confess the true God, and were circumcised. Achans children ⟨p. 299⟩were all stoned to death and burned for his sin, Josh. 7.15.26. It was Gods command to Israel, that if any City were reduced and drawn away to serve other gods, that City, infants and all should be destroyed, Deut. 13.12, 13. &c. God commanded Israel to put to death all the Infants of all the Nations that were given them for Inheritance, Deut. 20.16, 17. which was for the Parents abomination. The Amalekite's infants must all be slain: So are all the Males among the little ones of the Midianites, Numb. 31.17. The children of Daniels Accusers are cast into the Den of Lions, Dan. 6.24. And Babylons little ones must be dashed against the stones, Psal. 137.9. The wicked are cursed in the fruit of their body, yea, It is cursed, Deut. 28.18.32.41. Christ would have gathered the children of Jerusalem great and small, but did not, because they would not. On that Generation he brought all the righteous blood that was shed from Abel; and takes witness from their own mouths, that They were the children of them that killed the Prophets. Now I think, if the children of the notoriously ungodly lie under Gods visible displeasure thus far, they should not by Baptism (as theirs) be taken into that society that are visibly in his favour, and distinguished from all the world as a Peculiar people, a Holy Priesthood, a Royal Nation, the Children of God, the Body and Spouse of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Ghost.
Note also how the Scripture all along concurs. The seed of Cain are called the children of men, though its like they acknowledged God to be their Maker, who might have heard Adam tell them of the creation. And indeed it is ungodliness and wickedness that God drowned the World for. Yet are these children of Cain as an excommun•cate brood, whom the children of God might not joyn with. The Infants of all the wicked of the world are drowned with their Parents in the Flood: The Infants of Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed with their Parents, who are said by Jude to suffer the vengeance of eternal fire, as an example (not of original sin) but to those that after should live ungodly. The children of the Egyptians are destroyed for their Parents sins, while Israels are preserved. The children of Da•han and Abiram, and their confederates were swallowed up with them for their Rebellion: yet did their parents confess the true God, and were circumcised. Achans children ⟨p. 299⟩were all stoned to death and burned for his sin, Josh. 7.15.26. It was Gods command to Israel, that if any City were reduced and drawn away to serve other gods, that City, infants and all should be destroyed, Deut. 13.12, 13. &c. God commanded Israel to put to death all the Infants of all the Nations that were given them for Inheritance, Deut. 20.16, 17. which was for the Parents abomination. The Amalekite's infants must all be slain: So are all the Males among the little ones of the Midianites, Numb. 31.17. The children of Daniels Accusers are cast into the Den of Lions, Dan. 6.24. And Babylones little ones must be dash't against the stones, Psal. 137.9. The wicked are cursed in the fruit of their body, yea, It is cursed, Deut. 28.18.32.41. Christ would have gathered the children of Jerusalem great and small, but did not, because they would not. On that Generation he brought all the righteous blood that was shed from Abel; and takes witness from their own mouths, that They were the children of them that killed the Prophets. Now I think, if the children of the notoriously ungodly lie under Gods visible displeasure thus far, they should not by Baptism (as theirs) be taken into that society that are visibly in his favour, and distinguished from all the world as a Peculiar people, a Holy Priesthood, a Royal Nation, the Children of God, the Body and Spouse of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Ghost.
