The church-membership of children, and their right to baptism according to that holy and…The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme according to that holy and…

2. God was as Holy, and as exactly requiring holiness from the Jewish Church, as well as from Christian Churches; now do you think that the Covenant which then wrapped up the Jews children into Church-membership, was an high-way of profaneness, and unholiness in the members thereof, & of defiling & polluting Gods Church? or was it a way and means of holiness, and to keep them from being profane? to affirm the first is something Blasphemous, and very false, for 'tis expressly said Jer. 13.11. that as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so he caused the whole house of Israel (not grown men only) to cleave to him, that they might be to him a people (which was by Covenant) and for a name, for a praise, and for a glory; Gods name, Glory, praise was the end; and the Covenant was the means hereunto; and therefore it was no way or means of unholiness in that Church: but if you say, it was a means of holiness; why then should we fear the polluting of Churches by the same Covenant, which we have proved, wraps in our seed also? indeed they did prove universally profane in the Jewish Church; so they may in ours, but shall man's wickedness in abusing God's grace, and forsaking h•s Covenant tie the hands, or heart of God's free grace from taking such into Covenant; what ••o•gh some did not Believe? saith th• Apostle, Rom. 3.3, 4. ••all their unbelief make the Faith of God without effect? God forbid.

2. God was as Holy, and as exactly requiring holiness from the Jewish Church, as well as from Christian Churches; now do you think that the Covenant which then wrapt up the Iews children into Church-membership, was an high-way of prophaness, and unholyness in the members thereof, & of defiling & polluting Gods Church? or was it a way and meanes of holiness, and to keep them from being prophane? to affirm the first is somthing Blaphemous, and very false, for 'tis expressly said Ier. 13.11. that as the girdle cleaveth to the loynes of a man, so he caused the whole house of Israel (not grown men only) to cleave to him, that they might be to him a people (which was by Covenant) and for a name, for a praise, and for a glory; Gods name, Glory, praise was the end; and the Covenant was the meanes hereunto; and therefore it was no way or meanes of unholyness in that Church: but if you say, it was a meanes of holiness; why then should we fear the polluting of Churches by the same Covenant, which we have proved, wraps in our seed also? indeed they did prove universally prophane in the Jewish Church; so they may in ours, but shall man's wickedness in abuseing God's grace, and forsaking hs Covenant tye the hands, or heart of God's free grace from taking such into Covenant; what ogh some did not Believe? saith th Apostle,