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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
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§. 6. Some say that the new Covenant giveth grace and life to all that do not ponere obicem. But I must have Gods Covenant in his own terms, that I may have it in his own sense, if I will be assured of the benefits. Non ponere obicem signifieth plainly no Action or positive qualification ⟨p. 202⟩as necessary, but only a negation of some contrary action: And it is certain that the terms of Gods Covenant to the adult are clean contrary; It is not he that neither Believeth nor opposeth faith shall be saved, or he that doth neither good nor harm, as a man in an apoplexy, or asleep: But [he that believeth shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned; And except ye repent ye shall all perish; And without holiness none shall see God:] But a mere negation is no holiness.
§. 6. Some say that the new Covenant giveth grace and life to all that do not ponere obicem. But I must have Gods Covenant in his own terms, that I may have it in his own sense, if I will be assured of the benefits. Non ponere obicem signifieth plainly no Action or positive qualification ⟨p. 202⟩as necessary, but only a negation of some contrary action: And it is certain that the terms of Gods Covenant to the adult are clean contrary; It is not he that neither Believeth nor opposeth faith shall be saved, or he that doth neither good nor harm, as a man in an apoplexy, or asleep: But [he that believeth shall be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned; And except ye repent ye shall all perish; And without holiness none shall see God:] But a meer negation is no holiness.
§. 7. And if any will feign another Covenant for Infants, let him show what and where it is; for I know but one Covenant of grace, which taketh in the Infants with the Authorized Parents, whose members or Own God taketh them to be, and requireth a positive believing consent and dedication to God, as the positive condition: which is more than a Negative (non ponere obicem,) though performed by the Parent for the child: And so the promises throughout the Scripture run to the faithful and their seed.