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Answ. A childish contest about words! we say, that two things go to our full possession of our state of Regeneration, Justification, and Cleansing: One is our fundamental Right, which the Promise of the Gospel gives us upon our Heart consent or Covenant with God: the other is our Solemn Investiture: in regard of the former, we are Christians, and Regenerate, and Justified before Baptism: In regard of the later, we are made Christians, regenerate, justified, saved by Baptism. This we commonly hold, and so never denied what you falsely say we deny. As a man is made a King by his Coronation, that yet in a sort was one before; or as Marriage makes them Husband and Wife by public solemnization, that were fundamentally so before by Private Covenant; or as possession is given by a Key, a twig and a turf (as I said) of that which a man had right to before; so are we solemnly invested with those benefits by baptism, which we had a fundamental Title to before. Do not your own writers confess this of a man that is Baptized many years after he had Faith and Charity? Do you think Cornelius and the rest that had the Holy Ghost before Baptism, Act. 10. had not Justification before? Do you think that Constantine the great was unpardoned, unregenerate and no Christian till he was Baptized? Or rather would you make quarrels against your own Confessions?

Answ. A childish contest about words! we say, that two things go to our full possession of our state of Regeneration, Justification, and Cleansing: One is our fundamental Right, which the Promise of the Gospel gives us upon our Heart consent or Covenant with God: the other is our Solemn Investiture: in regard of the former, we are Christians, and Regenerate, and Justified before Baptism: In regard of the later, we are made Christians, regenerate, justified, saved by Baptism. This we commonly hold, and so never denyed what you falsly say we deny. As a man is made a King by his Coronation, that yet in a sort was one before; or as Marriage makes them Husband and Wife by publick solemnization, that were fundamentally so before by Private Covenant; or as possession is given by a Key, a twig and a turf (as I said) of that which a man had right to before; so are we solemnly invested with those benefits by baptism, which we had a fundamental Title to before. Do not your own writers confess this of a man that is Baptized many years after he had Faith and Charity? Do you think Cornelius and the rest that had the Holy Ghost before Baptism,