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

R. B. 2. The law of nature bindeth all Parents to do their best to secure Gods right, and their Children's good, and to prevent their sin and misery: But to engage them betimes to God by such a dedication, doth tend to secure Gods right, and their Children's good, and to prevent their sin and misery: For they are under a double obligation, which they may be minded of betimes, ⟨p. 107⟩and which may hold them the more strongly to their duty, and disadvantage the tempter that would draw them off from God.

R. B. 2. THe law of nature bindeth all Parents to do their best to secure Gods right, and their Childrens good, and to prevent their sin and misery: But to engage them betimes to God by such a dedication, doth tend to secure Gods right, and their Childrens good, and to prevent their sin and misery: For they are under a double obligation, which they may be minded of betimes, ⟨p. 107⟩and which may hold them the more strongly to their duty, and disadvantage the tempter that would draw them off from God.

Mr. T. Really Infant Baptism is a disadvantage, 1. In that it is the occasion whereby they take themselves to be Christians afore they know what Christianity is, and so are kept in presumption, &c. 2. They are kept from the true baptism, &c.

Reply. This nearly concerneth our cause: I once inclined to these thoughts my self: But I am satisfied, 1. That Infant Covenanting and Baptism is no hindrance in Nature or Reason from personal serious Covenanting with God at age. We tell our Children and all the adult, that their Infant Covenanting by Parents, will serve them but till they have Reason and Will of their own to choose for themselves: And that without as serious a faith and consent of their own then as if they had never been baptized, they cannot be saved: What hurt then as to this doth their Infant interest do them?