Another essay for investigation of the truth, in answer to two questions, concerning I.…

I.This Phrase, Members of the visible Church, in the first Proposition, I take to be explained in the second Proposition.

I.THis Phrase, Members of the visible Church, in the first Proposition, I take to be explained in the second Proposition.

II. By this Phrase in the second Proposition, Their Infant-seed, I suppose is meant only their legitimate infant-seed, and is not to be extended to illegitimate children; against which a strong Argument may be gathered from Deut. 23.2.

II. By this Phrase in the second Proposition, Their Infant-seed, I suppose is meant onely their legitimate infant-seed, and is not to be extended to illegitimate children; against which a strong Argument may be gathered from Deut. 23.2.

III. The second Proposition doth seem to distinguish of Members in particular Churches: Some are said to be Confederate visible Believers; whereby, I suppose, is meant, such as have immediately and personally taken hold of the Covenant themselves, both for themselves, and for their seed: for it is manifest, that it is spoken of such as are made contradistinct to an infant-seed, that cannot thus do. Some are said to be Their infant-seed, (i.) children in minority, &c. And how come these to be Members? The last words in the Proposition do show; which are, Whose next Parents, one or both, are in Covenant: which doth imply at least, that they become Members in and by their next Parents covenanting for them. Hence the ground of the distinction of Membership into Immediate