The grounds and ends of the baptism of the children of the faithful. Opened…The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened…

Finally, that known place in 1 Cor. 7.14. though it have been much wrested and racked to look and speak another way, yet it cannot but bear witness to the truth in hand, that by the faith of either Parent, the children are received into a state of holiness, and ⟨p. 50⟩so are accounted amongst Gods holy people, which is by fellowship in the Covenant. By the text and context it appeareth, that in the church of Corinth, sometimes the wife had been converted to Christianity, when the husband still remained an infidel (or as it is translated, an unbeliever;) and sometimes the husband had been converted, when the wife remained an infidel; whereupon it grew a just and weighty doubt, whether the believer were not bound in conscience to put away the unbelieving yoke-fellow. And the doubt seemed to have just ground from that which might seem to be a like case in the old Testament, in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah; where such as had married strange wives, were commanded of God, and covenanted among themselves, to put away both their strange wives, and the children begotten of them, Ezra 10.2, 3. Nehem. 13.23, 24, 25. For resolving this doubt (as well as of some others) the Corinthians by letter consulted with the Apostle, 1 Cor. 7.1. &c. And to this doubt the Apostle answereth, that the believer should not put away the unbelieving yoke-fellow. And for this he giveth a double reason.

Finally, that known place in 1 Cor. 7.14. though it have beene much wrested and racked to looke and speake another way, yet it cannot but beare witnesse to the truth in hand, that by the faith of either Parent, the children are received into a state of holinesse, and ⟨p. 50⟩so are accounted amongst Gods holy people, which is by fellowship in the Covenant. By the text and context it appeareth, that in the church of Corinth, sometimes the wife had been converted to Christianity, when the husband still remained an infidell (or as it is translated, an unbeleever;) and sometimes the husband had been converted, when the wife remained an infidell; whereupon it grew a just and weighty doubt, whether the believer were not bound in conscience to put away the unbelieving yoke-fellow. And the doubt seemed to have just ground from that which might seem to be a like case in the old Testament, in the dayes of Ezra and Nehemiah; where such as had maried strange wives, were commanded of God, and covenanted among themselves, to put away both their strange wives, and the children begotten of them,