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

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.

The Antecedent I prove 1. from the second Commandment: where note 1. that the parties differenced are the Posterity of them that hate God on one side, and on the other those that love him and keep his Commandments: Not only between Professors of Faith, or of Infidelity, but between godly and ungodly: it being usual in Scripture to call the ungodly Haters of God, and justly; and it is those that love him not, and keep not his Commandments, that are called haters of him. 2. Note, that it is a visible mark of his favour which he there putteth on the seed of the godly, from whence we may well gather their Church-membership, as I have showed elsewhere. Therefore it is a visible note of his disfavour which he putteth on the Notoriously ungodly; from whence we may gather that they are not to be visible Church-members. 3. Note also that this is in the Decalogue, and a standing determination of God, and not ceremonial or transitory.