More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

Mr. T. I assert, 1. There is no such offer, promise or Covenant: 2. That though there are precepts for Parents to pray for their Children, to breed them up yet they are not bound to believe this, that upon their own faith God will take their Infant Children to be his, and will be a God to them, nor to accept of this pretended offer. 3. That though Parents may enter into Covenant for their Children — as Deut. 29.12. they do not by this make them partakers of the Covenant or promise that God will be their God.

Reply. What a deal of the Gospel and the Churches mercies do these men deny? 1. The very nature of our own Holy Covenant is, that in it we give up to God our selves and all that is ours according to the capacity of that all. And as our Riches are devoted hereby as capable utensils; so our Infants as capable of Infant Relation, Obligation and Right. What is it that a sanctified man must not devote to God that is His? If you except Liberty, Health, Life, you are hypocrites: And can you except Children? It's true; this is but so far as they are our own, and we say no more: when they have a will to choose for themselves, they must do it. 2. I have fully proved Scripture commands for Parents to offer their Children to God, and that signifieth his will to accept what he commandeth them to offer. And his promises to show mercy to them as theirs are plain and many, which I must not tire the Reader with repeating.

Reply. What a deal of the Gospel and the Churches mercys do these men deny? 1. The very nature of our own Holy Covenant is, that in it we give up to God our selves and all that is ours according to the capacity of that all. And as our Riches are devoted hereby as capable utensils; so our Infants as capable of Infant Relation, Obligation and Right. What is it that a sanctified man must not devote to God that is His? If you except Liberty, Health, Life, you are hypocrites: And can you except Children? It's true; this is but so far as they are our own, and we say no more: when they have a will to choose for themselves, they must do it. 2. I have fully proved Scripture commands for Parents to offer their Children to God, and that signifieth his will to accept what he commandeth them to offer. And his promises to shew mercy to them as theirs are plain and many, which I must not tire the Reader with repeating.