A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…

4. It is to be feared that the denial of such Baptism as is disputed for, will in time Introduce Corruption and Impurity into Churches. For hereby persons out of the exceeding great desire; which they have that their Children might be baptized, (and who can blame them for that?) are put upon a Temptation to venture upon the Lords Table before such time as they are so well qualified for it as were meet yea and Churches also are hereby put upon a Temptation to be lax in their Admissions to the Lords Table, that so they may be quiet from the continual clamours of those that do account themselves not a little wronged, when Baptism is withheld from their Children. These things may serve to Answer that Objection, but there is another wherein there seems to be a real knot. For in the fifth place it may be alleged, that the persons in Question, either have to the Judgement of Charity a Justifying Faith or not. If not they (and consequently their Children) are not baptizable. If yea, then they are forthwith admirable to the Lords Snpper. Answer.

4. It is to be feared that the denyal of such Baptisme as is disputed for, will in time Introduce Corruption and Impurity into Churches. For hereby persons out of the exceeding great desire; which they have that their Children might be baptized, (and who can blame them for that?) are put upon a Temptation to venture upon the Lords Table before such time as they are so well qualified for it as were meet yea and Churches also are hereby put upon a Temptation to be lax in their Admissions to the Lords Table, that so they may be quiet from the continual clamours of those that do account themselves not a little wronged, when Baptisme is withheld from their Children. These things may serve to Answer that Objection, but there is another wherein there seems to be a real knot. For in the fifth place it may be alleadged, that the persons in Question, either have to the Judgement of Charity a Justifying Faith or not. If not they (and consequently their Children) are not baptizable. If yea, then they are forthwith admittable to the Lords Snpper. Answer.

1. I do readily acknowledge, that as it is only a Justifying Faith which giveth right to Baptisme Coram Deo, so it is the profession or visibility of this Faith that giveth right thereunto Coram Ecclesiâ. Some have maintained that a Dogmatical Historical Faith, or a Faith of Assent to the Truth of the Gospel doth entitle to Baptism. But the common