By these Arguments, [and the next which follows, which is in all their mouths] let the Reader judge, whither they do not all strike as much at the Grace and Wisdom of God, in his Covenanting with Abraham, and his Seed; Constituting the Church of the Jewish Parents, and their Seed, and Circumcising of the Infants, as they do prove, that now the Infants should not be admitted into the Gospel-Church, nor Baptised. So that the Anabaptists tells God, that if he will Constitute the Church of the Jews right, he must let their Children be grown up. First, Learn to know the God of Abraham. Second, Put forth an Actual Faith in Christ, the Promised Seed to come, as Abraham saw his Day and rejoiced. Joh. 8.56. Thirdly, Let them do the works of their Father Abraham. Joh. 8.39. Fourthly, Let them manifest that they are really the Children of God, then admit ⟨p. 81⟩them Members, and Circumcise them. Does not all their Arguments tend to this? they will teach the Holy, Wise God, how to Constitute Churches better. I will not be afraid to say, That all the Anabaptists that ever were, or shall be, shall never be able to cast the Seed of Believing Parents out of the Church, by any Consequence drawn from any Text in the Bible, therefore they must give us clearer Texts, before we shall believe them.
By these Arguments, [and the next which follows, which is in all their mouths] let the Reader judge, whither they do not all strike as much at the Grace and Wisdom of God, in his Covenanting with Abraham, and his Seed; Constituting the Church of the Jewish Parents, and their Seed, and Circumcising of the Infants, as they do prove, that now the Infants should not be admitted into the Gospel-Church, nor Baptised. So that the Anabaptists tells God, that if he will Constitute the Church of the Jews right, he must let their Children be grown up. First, Learn to know the God of Abraham. Second, Put forth an Actual Faith in Christ, the Promised Seed to come, as Abraham saw his Day and rejoyced. Joh. 8.56. Thirdly, Let them do the works of their Father Abraham. Joh. 8.39. Fourthly, Let them manifest that they are really the Children of God, then admit ⟨p. 81⟩them Members, and Circumcise them. Does not all their Arguments tend to this? they will teach the Holy, Wise God, how to Constitute Churches better. I will not be afraid to say, That all the Anabaptists that ever were, or shall be, shall never be able to cast the Seed of Believing Parents out of the Church, by any Consequence drawn from any Text in the Bible, therefore they must give us clearer Texts, before we shall believe them.
