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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	covenant_n	grace_n	seal_n	4,967	5	9.5543	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26961	Much in a little, or, An abstract of Mr. Baxters plain Scripture-proof for infants church-membership or baptism with a few notes upon the anti-queries of T.G. / by the same hand that wrote the Fifty queries.	Barret, John, 1631-1713.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Plain Scripture-proof of infants church-membership and baptism.; Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692. Quaeries examined.	1678 (1678)	Wing B1314; ESTC R14073	29,895	84

they not God engaged in Covenant to be their God and to take them for his peculiar people Deut. 29. 10 11 12. And those that were aliens to the Common-wealth of Israel were they not strangers to the covenant of Promise and without hope and without God in the World Eph. 2. 12. And is there any Scripture that speaketh of delivering any from this sad estate but Church-Members And when God addeth to the Church such as shall be saved can it be any known way of mercy to be cast or put out of the Church Did Christ come in tho flesh to put Infants out of his Church in mercy Will you say he could more fitly save them out of his Church than in it And if it be no benefit to the Catholick Church to have Infants kept out of Heaven nor any hurt to the Church to see them there why should it be a benefit to the whole Church to have them kept out on Earth or any hurt to the Church to see them Members here And whatsoever it may be to strangers yet how can it seem such a mercy to Parents to have their Children put out of the Church why then hath God made such promises to Parents for their Seed as if much of the Parents comfort lay in their Childrens Welfare And hath God no mercy for Infants or can he not shew mercy to the whole Church in an easier way than by casting out all their Infants What great comfort would follow this conclusion That all your Infants are out of Christs visible Church Can you prove that Christ will save those that are no Christians not so much as visibly or seemingly Subjects of his Kingdom If some priviledges were taken away as the Release of the Jews servants c. yet are there not far greater given in their stead 2. Is it not evident from Rom. 11. 17. That only some of the Branches were broken off from the Church Therefore to the rest that remained in the gift was not repealed Doth not the Apostle say it of that Church whereof Infants were Members with their Parents that but some were broken off from this Church and how far is the whole Church from being dissolved And who can imagine that God should cast out the Infant that came in for the Parents sake while the Parents remain in the same Church 3. Is it not evident from Rom. 11. 20. That none of the Jews were broken off but for unbelief And consequently that Believers and their seed were not broken off Will you say that the Apostle speaketh there of the Invisible Church Doth he not speak of that Church whereof the Jews were natural Branches v. 24. and was not that the Visible Church And if the breaking off was visible such wherein Gods severity was to be beheld by the Gentiles as v. 22. was it not from the Visible Church directly Could there be a visible breaking off or removal from an invisible term 4. If it be into their own Olive which they were broke off from and of which they were natural branches that the Jews shall be re-ingraffed at their recovery as Rom. 11. 24. then how is Gods Ordinance for their Infant Church-Membership repealed Is not their own Olive their own Church And did not their own Church ever contain Infants as Members As it will when it is but part of the Catholick Church tho they be not restored to the Mosaical Law or Covenant of peculiarity but taken into the Catholick Church 5. Is it not the same Olive or Church which the Jews were broken off from that we Gentiles are graffed into as Rom. 11. 17 19 24 And if their Church admitted Infant-Members and ours be the same must not ours admit of Infant-Members also Is it not plain from the Text that the Olive or Church it self remained still only some Branches were broken off and others of the Gentiles ingraffed in their stead Then how is it taken down any further than as to ceremonial accidentals 6. Would not Christ have gathered Jerusalem which is usually put for all Judea and the Jewish Nation Mat. 23. 37 38 39. And is it likely that he would have unchurched all their Infants when he would have gathered to him whole Jerusalem or the whole Nation 7. Can ye suppose the believing Jews children and so the Parents in point of comfort to be in a worse condition since Christ than they were before Did Christ come to make Believers or their children miserable or bring them into a worse condition And is it not a far worse condition to be out of the visible Church than in it Hath not Christ made larger promises to his Church Visible than to any in the world that are not of the Church what promise is there to others except the conditional upon their coming in 8. If the Church of Christ be not in a worse state now in regard of the Childrens happiness and the Parents comfort than it was before Christs coming then will it not follow that our children ought to be admitted Church-Members and consequently that Ordinance and merciful Gift is not repealed 9. If the Children of Believers now be put out of the Church then are they not in a worse condition than the very children of the Gentiles were before the coming of Christ Is it not the express Letter of Gods Law that any stranger that would come in might bring his children and all be Circumcised and admitted Members of the Jews Church 10. Was not the Covenant Deur 29. 10 11 12. which all the Jews with all their little ones were enter'd into with God a Covenant of Grace as distinct from the Laws which was repealed How then is it or their Church-Membership grounded on it repealed Is not that a Covenant of Grace wherein God taketh them to be his people and engageth to be their God Hath God entred into such a Covenant with any since the Fall but in Christ and upon terms of Grace Is not that a Covenant of Grace wherein the Lord promiseth to Circumcise their hearts and the hearts of their Seed c. See Heb. 10. 16 17. And doth not the Apostle Paul cite those words of faith Rom. 10. 5 6 7 8. out of this very Covenant Compare Deut. 30. 11 12 13 14. with the Text last cited 11. If Infants then were entred and engaged Church-Members by that Circumcision which was a Seal of the Rightcousness of Faith and was not given on Legal grounds as Rom. 4. 11. how comes that Church-Membership of Infants to be repealed Is it any other than a shift to say that it was only such a Seal of Abrahams righteousness of Faith Is not the nature end and use of Sacraments or holy engaging Signs and Seals the same to all though the fruit be not alway the same 12. If the Law of Infants Church-Membership was no part of the Ceremonial or meerly Judicial Law