The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

If by the root and the lump be understood only Believers and chosen to life, the whole Israel, which is as the sand of the sea, should be saved, whereas the Word of God saith, a remnant only shall be ⟨p. 114⟩saved, [Greek or Hebrew] LXX. Te•la. A part taken out shall be saved, Rom. 9.27. Isai. 10.22, 23. Hos. 1.10. 4. By the branches must be meant all the visible body of the Jews, old and young. Now if Anabaptists give us a Visible Church of the Jews of all real believers, even the branches and Infants, (which shall hardly be proven by the Scripture) these infants at least being visible Believers may lawfully be baptized, being both internally and visible, and externally in Covenant. For this Scripture is expressly expounded by them of real and inherent holiness, and so Infants must be real Believers and in Covenant. Ergo they must be baptized: What can be replied is not imaginable: but they have not actual faith, and possibly that is not known to the Church. But this Scripture saith that the branches and root both are holy. 2. It shall be new Divinity, that none are to be baptized but such as are under the actual •••rcise of their faith, a thing that cannot be discerned by the Church, in these that are come to age. 5. Here shall also be this new Divinity, that predestination to life and glory must be propagated and derived from the lump to the first fruits, from the root and parents to the branches and children.

If by the root and the lump be understood only Believers and chosen to life, the whole Israel, which is as the sand of the sea, should be saved, whereas the Word of God saith, a remnant only shall be ⟨p. 114⟩saved, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 LXX. Te•la. A part taken out shal be saved,