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

Argu. 21. From the second Commandment, with all those other Texts that express Gods differencing the seed of the wicked and godly. If it be Gods will that there shall be visible notes of his displeasure on the children of the Notoriously ungodly, as theirs, in comparison of the children of the godly, then we ought not to baptize them. But the Antecedent is true; Therefore so is the Consequent.

Here note, 1. That we speak not of any children of ungodly men, who at age renounce their Parents ways, and themselves fear God (of whom Ezek. 18. speaks:) but only of them, while Infants, and as theirs. 2. In the Antecedent I mean that God hath so visibly noted out the children of the Notoriously ungodly, as such, to lie under his displeasure, that he would have the Church and all take notice of it, and esteem of ⟨p. 298⟩them accordingly. The reason of the Consequent is, because Baptizing puts them among those that are visibly under Gods favour, the Church being called the Body of Christ, the House of the Living God, &c. But those that be visibly from under his special favour, should not be put into such a Body.

Here note, 1. That we speak not of any children of ungodly men, who at age renounce their Parents waies, and themselves fear God (of whom Ezek. 18. speaks:) but only of them, while Infants, and as theirs. 2. In the Antecedent I mean that God hath so visibly noted out the children of the Notoriously ungodly, as such, to lie under his displeasure, that he would have the Church and all take notice of it, and esteem of ⟨p. 298⟩them accordingly. The reason of the Consequent is, because Baptizing puts them among those that are visibly under Gods favour, the Church being called the Body of Christ, the House of the Living God, &c. But those that be visibly from under his special favour, should not be put into such a Body.