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And now because Mr. Burkitt, a learned Pedo-baptist, in his late Book for Infant-Baptism, argues from this Text as you do, and I have fully in answering him answered you both, I shall here repeat his Arguments, and my Reply: he says, Paul in these words answers the Corinthians Scruple; you say the Apostle in these words answers a Question proposed by the believing Corinthians, viz. Whether such as had Heathen and Infidel Wives ought to put them away with their Children, as in the days of Ezra? The Apostle resolves them that they ought not: For, saith he, the unbelieving Wife is sanctified by the believing Husband. How sanctified? Not in her Name, but in her Use, says Mr. Burkitt, so as that they might lawfully cohabit and converse together. And for your Children they are holy, not with an Inherent, Internal, Personal Holiness; for the holiest Man-child is born in Sin, and by Nature a Child of Wrath; but with an External, Relative, Federal Holiness, they are not common and unclean, like the Children of Infidels, but fit to be partakers of the Privileges of the Church, which the Children of Infidels are not. Thus Mr. Barkitt.

Now I answer, as I have answered him, you can't be ignorant, but that you know well enough this Text hath been fully opened by divers learned Men as well Pedobaptists as Anti-pedobaptists, who prove the Holiness here spoken of, is no such External Relative Federal Holiness you dream of. In the first place, you speak right, it was about that very matter that the Corinthians wrote to St. Paul, viz. Whether the believing Husband might live or cohabit with the unbelieving Wife? &c. So that the Scope and Coherence of the Text opens the matter, and shows what Holiness 'tis the Apostle intends, viz. a Matrimonial Holiness; for should he make their Marriage void, their Children would be unclean or illegitimate, i. e. Bastards: for tho […] true, the case was not as Mr. Burkitt says concerning Men and Whores, but about Husbands and Wives, yet he honestly says it was about the Lawfulness of their Marriage, as in Ezra's time, when some were commanded to put their Wives away, because their Marriage was unlawful. Now such, say we, as is the Sanctification or Holiness of the unbelieving Wife or Husband, is the Sanctification or Holiness of the […], and that Mr. Burkitt grants to be a Matrimonial Sanctification, so as that they might lawfully cohabit together a Man and Wife. And indeed if the Children had