A practical commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and uses upon the first…A practicall commentary, or an exposition with observations, reasons, and vses upon the first…

I answer, No Doctrine makes us more circumspect than to know that God is our Father, and if we grow secure, God will show he is a Father as well to correct, as to show indulgence.

I answer, No Doctrine makes us more circumspect than to know that God is our Father, and if we grow secure, God will shew he is a Father as well to correct, as to shew indulgence.

Use 3. To confute the Anabaptists, that exclude Infants from Original sin, and so from capability of Grace, and so from Baptism, therefore they rebaptize men, because, say they, till then they are neither capable of Sin, nor Grace; how doth David then say, that he was conceived in sin? how is it here said of Babes, that they know their Father? and why were infants Circumcised ⟨p. 102⟩under the Law the eighth day; if they did but as well know God as some of these little Children, they would not hold such an opinion so contrary to Scripture.

Ʋse 3. To confute the Anabaptists, that exclude Infants from Original sin, and so from capability of Grace, and so from Baptism, therefore they rebaptise men, because, say they, till then they are neither capable of Sin, nor Grace; how doth David then say, that he was conceived in sin? how is it here said of Babes, that they know their Father? and why were infants Circumcised ⟨p. 102⟩under the Law the eighth day; if they did but as well know God as some of these little Children, they would not hold such an opinion so contrary to Scripture.