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

Answ. The word [Interest] may signify the Interest that fallen mankind hath in the Covenant as conditional antecedent to mans consent: And thus I suppose neither you nor I here speak of it. But if by my Interest you mean, that I am the person to whom the Covenant giveth a present Right to its benefits, I answer, Some benefits follow long after: but when I consent, then I am the person to whom the Covenant giveth a present Right to union with Christ, in the first instant and consequently with his Church or body in the second: so that here is no such thing as your feigned membership before Covenant interest, that is, before a Right to that Relation by Gods donation. And as […] former dream that this is not a Right an• moral effect but a physical, it was your self and not I that subjected you to the shame of such an assertion, which I will no more confute.

Answ. The word [Interest] may signifie the Interest that fallen mankind hath in the Covenant as conditional antecedent to mans consent: And thus I suppose neither you nor I here speak of it. But if by my Interest you mean, that I am the person to whom the Covenant giveth a present Right to its benefits, I answer, Some benefits follow long after: but when I consent, then I am the person to whom the Covenant giveth a present Right to union with Christ, in the first instant and consequently with his Church or body in the second: so that here is no such thing as your feigned membership before Covenant interest, that is, before a Right to that Relation by Gods donation. And as 〈…〉 former dream that this is not a Right an• moral effect but a physical, it was your self and not I that subjected you to the shame of such an assertion, which I will no more confute.

Mr. T. 6. If the Covenant &c. be the only […] bought Orphans of Turks, ⟨p. 176⟩wholly at our dispose, are no visible members, &c.