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…

An ill office and work then surely are they employed in, whose way and endeavours, shall centre in the accomplishing of that which Satan hath been so busily, and with such malignity, for so many ages undertaking, and no great thanks will such receive for that labour from the Lord Jesus another day. If Christ was so much displeased, that his disciples rebuked those, who brought their children to him, Mark 10.14: And if the Apostle Peter received so severe a check as we read Mat. 16.22, 23. for speaking that, which had a tendency to take the Lord Jesus off from •aying down the price of Redemption: how much more then will he be now displeased if (after such rebuke and warning given) any shall attempt to keep from him, and deprive him of, his Redeemed, whom he hath purchased by so dear a price? so many, I mean, of his purchased ones, as the number of the infants and children of Believers (de•d, and alive, and to be born,) amount's unto? why may we not believe, that an exceeding great multitude of the Sheep that shall be seen standing at the right ha•d of Jesus Christ in the day of Judgment, shall be a company of these Lambs? As to withhold from Christ so great a part of his purchase (the labour of the Anabaptist) must needs be no other then highly Antichristian; so to make good, and recover the interest of Christ in such, and the Glory which he obtains by them, according to the enlarged grant of the charter of h•s new-Testament; the scope, and work of these few sheets) is a service pleasing unto Christ, who out of the mouths of these ba••s, and sucklings even […], Mat. 21.15, 16. and so I trust will be acceptable to his People, who when as they must go down to the d•st and cannot keep alive their own Souls, yet may be hold their seed succeeding them in the service & worship of God, being •ccounted to th• Lord […] ••generation,