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

Reply. Alas, poor Readers, that must be thus wearied! I know nothing that this Law or Covenant giveth but a Right to real benefits that must have answerable causes: I know no Right given but it is eventually given, nor received but it's eventually received. Admission is an ambiguous word: My dictates as he calls them, are 1. That Gods Law obligeth persons to devote themselves and their Infants to God, by consenting to his Covenant for themselves and them: 2. And to do this if they have opportunity in the solemn Baptismal Covenanting Ordinance: 3. And in his Covenant or Law of Grace he promiseth to accept them, and signifieth his consent to the mutual Covenant: which is antecedently to their consent, but a conditional consent or Covenant, but consequently actual. 4. That accordingly natural interest only is not the Reason why a Believers Child is a Church-member, merely because he is his: BE God having given him power and obligation also to dispose of his own Child for the ends of his ⟨p. 79⟩Creation and Redemption, he is a Church-member initially upon heart-consent; and by Investiture upon Sacramental consent: which I think you mean by Admission.

Reply. Alas, poor Readers, that must be thus wearied! I know nothing that this Law or Covenant giveth but a Right to real benefits that must have answerable causes: I know no Right given but it is eventually given, nor received but it's eventually received. Admission is an ambiguous word: My dictates as he calls them, are 1. That Gods Law obligeth persons to devote themselves and their Infants to God, by consenting to his Covenant for themselves and them: 2. And to do this if they have opportunity in the solemn Baptismal Covenanting Ordinance: 3. And in his Covenant or Law of Grace he promiseth to accept them, and signifieth his consent to the mutual Covenant: which is antecedently to their consent, but a conditional consent or Covenant, but consequently a•tual. 4. That accordingly natural interest only is not the Reason why a Believers Child is a Church-member, meerly because he is his: BE God having given him power and obligation also to dispose of his own Child for the ends of his ⟨p. 79⟩Creation and Redemption, he is a Church-member initially upon heart-consent; and by Investiture upon Sacramental consent: which I think you mean by Admission.