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…

You say, none invisibly before God, are by him approved at all to have right to any privilege of grace, but only as he looketh upon them in his Son: no more are there any before men visibly to be approved of, so as to have right to the same.

You say, none invisibly before God, are by him approved at all to have right to any priviledge of grace, but onely as he looketh upon them in his Son: no more are there any before men visibly to be approved of, so as to have right to the same.

This saying (that none have right to any privilege of grace before God, but as he looketh upon them in his Son) it is true, rightly understood, but nothing availing to your purpose. If you mean by grace, saving grace, it is true; none have right to any privilege of saving grace, but as God looketh at them in his Son, either by faith, or by election unto faith. If you mean by grace, the outward dispensation of the covenant of grace, and of the seal thereof, it is true, none have right to any privilege of the covenant, or of the seal of it, but as they are in Christ either by faith, or by election unto faith, or by their fellowship with the church, whereof Christ is the head. In which respect all the members of the church, and their seed are in Christ, as branches in the vine, or olive, and may be cut off from him for want of faith to make them fruitful in him. But what availeth this to your purpose? Thus it is in the new Testament, and thus it was in the Old.

This saying (that none have right to any priviledge of grace before God, but as he looketh upon them in his Son) it is true, rightly understood, but nothing availing to your purpose. If you mean by grace, saving grace, it is true; none have right to any priviledge of saving grace, but as God looketh at them in his Son, either by faith, or by election unto faith. If you meane by grace, the outward dispensation of the covenant of grace, and of the seal thereof, it is true, none have right to any priviledge of the covenant, or of the seale of it, but as they are in Christ either by faith, or by election unto faith, or by their fellowship with the church, whereof Christ is the head. In which respect all the members of the church, and their seed are in Christ, as branches in the vine, or olive, and may be cut off from him for want of faith to make them fruitfull in him. But what avayleth this to your purpose? Thus it is in the new Testament, and thus it was in the Old.