Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient…Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient…

Answ. I answer, if it be so, as you say, in all National States, Governments and Constitutions, and Civil Societies, what doth this prove touching the case in hand, unless you dare undertake to affirm, the Gospel-Church is National and not Congregational? Doth the Constitution of the Spiritual Gospel-Church run as in Human and National Constitutions? Prove it, for I utterly deny it. Besides, if your Infants, as such, are Fellow-Citizens with the Saints, and are to partake of all the Privileges of the City of God, why do you deny them the Lord's-Supper? your Similitude proves no more their right to Baptism, to one Privilege than another. I never yet could understand what Spiritual or Temporal Privileges any Infant receives in Baptism: What good doth that do them that have not the Things signified in Baptism? There are great Benefits received in such a Grant you speak of in an external Charter; but as God hath not commanded Infants to be baptized, so not any Benefits can be proved they receive thereby. In this you argue as Mr. Burkit hath done before you. Reader, take his Similitude, viz. I demand, saith he, whether, according to the Mind of God gathered from the words of the Commission, the Remedy prescribed should be administered only to grown Persons, because they only are capable of understanding and believing the Virtue and Efficacy of it? Sure every Rational Man among you would conclude his Child capable of the Remedy as well as himself, although ignorant of the Virtue that is in it, and only passive in the Administration of it; and that it would be Cruelty, yea Murder in the Parent to deny the Application of it to all his Children.

Answ. I answer, if it be so, as you say, in all National States, Governments and Constitutions, and Civil Societies, what doth this prove touching the case in hand, unless you dare undertake to affirm, the Gospel-Church is National and not Congregational? Doth the Constitution of the Spiritual Gospel-Church run as in Human and National Constitutions? Prove it, for I utterly deny it. Besides, if your Infants, as such, are Fellow-Citizens with the Saints, and are to partake of all the Privileges of the City of God, why do you deny them the Lord's-Supper? your Similitude proves no more their right to Baptism, to one Privilege than another. I never yet could understand what Spiritual or Temporal Privileges any Infant receives in Baptism: What good doth that do them that have not the Things signified in Baptism? There are great Benefits received in such a Grant you speak of in an external Charter; but as God hath not commanded Infants to be baptized, so not any Benefits can be proved they receive thereby. In this you argue as Mr. Burkit hath done before you. Reader, take his Similitude, viz. I demand, saith he, whether, according to the Mind of God gathered from the words of the Commission, the Remedy prescribed should be administred only to grown Persons, because they only are capable of understanding and believing the Virtue and Efficacy of it? Sure every Rational Man among you would conclude his Child capable of the Remedy as well as himself, altho ignorant of the Virtue that is in it, and only passive in the Administration of it; and that it would be Cruelty, yea Murder in the Parent to deny the Application of it to all his Children.