A65285:2813
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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2d Arg. If Infants▪ may be among the Number of God's Servants, then there is no reason why they should be shut out of God's Family: but Infants may be in the Number of God's Servants: That is evident, because God calls them his Servants. Levit. 25.4. He shall depart from thee, and his Children with him, for they are my Servants. Therefore Children in their Infancy being God's Servants, why should they not have Baptism, which is the Tessera, the Mark or Seal which God sets upon his Servants.
3d Arg. Is from 1 Cor. 7.14. But now are your Children holy. Children are not called Holy, as if they were free from Original Sin, but in the Judgment of Charity they are to be esteemed holy and true Members of the Church of God, because their Parents are Believers. Hence that excellent Divine Mr. Heldersam saith, That the Children of the Faithful, as soon as they are born have a Covenant-Holiness, and so a Right and Title to Baptism, which is the Token of the Covenant.
3d Arg. Is from 1 Cor. 7.14. But now are your Children holy. Children are not called Holy, as if they were free from Original Sin, but in the Iudgment of Charity they are to be esteemed holy and true Members of the Church of God, because their Parents are Believers. Hence that excellent Divine Mr. Heldersam saith, That the Children of the Faithful, as soon as they are born have a Covenant-Holiness, and so a Right and Title to Baptism, which is the Token of the Covenant.