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A50249	A disputation concerning church-members and their children in answer to XXI questions wherein the state of such children when adult, together with their duty towards the church, and the churches duty towards them is discussed by an assembly of divines meeting at Boston in New England, June 4th, 1657 / now published by a lover of truth.	Mather, Richard, 1596-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing M1271A; ESTC R3585	21,931	42

in for that his reports of New England have perhaps therefore found the more credit because he above others is not without advantages to know New-England and the waies of the Churches there better than it seems he doth The design of these enquiries being to search out what course the Lord Christ in his wisdom and faithfulnesse hath appointed for prevention of the degenerating of Churches in successive generations from their primitive soundnesse and purity and of the polluting and prostituting of his holy things thereby it is not altogether improbable but some additional contribution of light may be brought forth by them to us here in England in that great case of ours about the restoring of such of our Parishes as retain any thing of the essence of a Church in them and thence are capable of a reformation to such a measure of purity as may take off the just distasts and dissatisfactions of such as are conscientiously tender of their Church-Communion The preservation of Churches pure restauration of them when collapsed meeting in the end do also run along together in the way thereto and are to be accomplished by the same rules May this in any measure be the fruit of this Disputations coming under the presse it will never repent any of those persons that have had any hand therein yea it will be their rejoycing and their glory in the day of the Lord Iesus and that so it may the blessing of Heaven be upon it A DISPUTATION CONCERNING Church-Members AND THEIR CHILDREN IN ANSWER to 21 QUESTIONS Quest 1. WHether any Children of confederate Parents be under their Parents Covenant and members with them Answ. Some Children of confederate Parents are by meanes of their Parents Covenanting in Covenant also and so Members of the Church by divine Institution For Arg. 1. They that are in that Covenant for substance which was made with Abraham Gen. 17. 7. they are in Covenant and Members of the Church by divine Institution because that Covenant doth inferre Church-Membership as being the formall cause thereof For 1. A people that are in that Covenant are thereby the visible People or Church of God Gen. 17. 7. compared with Deut. 29. 12 13. by this Covenant the Family of Abraham and so afterwards the People of Israel was made and established the visible Church of God 2. Many were in that Covenant which never were in saving state of grace Therefore that was the externall or Church Covenant which God makes with his visible Church or People 3. Circumcision sealed that Covenant which was the distinguishing mark between those within and those without the Church But some children are in that Covenant for substance which was made with Abraham Gen. 17. 7. as appears by sundry Scriptures which being rightly considered and compared do inferre the continuance of the substance of that Covenant whereby God is a God to his People and their seed under the new Testament Acts 2. 39. Gal. 3. 14. with Gen. 28. 4. Rom. 11. 16 17. the Churches of the Gentiles do partake of the root of covenanting Abraham and of Olive or Church estate thereby So 1 Cor. 7. 14. The word Holy as applied to any sort of persons and opposed to Gentile-uncleannesse is not in Scripture used for lesse then a Faederall or covenant-holinesse but is often used in that sense as Ezr. 9. 2. Deut. 7. 6. and 14. 2. 21. and 26. 19. and 28. 9. Dan. 8. 24. and 12. 7. Rom. 11. 16. and where a covenant or faederal estate is asserted of children what doth it but refer us to that Ancient and never revoked covenant common to all Nations whereof Abraham was the Pattern-Father Gen. 17. 5 7. And if Gentile Proselytes of old they and their children shared in that covenant surely Gentile believers now are not behind them in the like priviledge For the Gentile confederate believer is also a child of Abraham Gal. 3. 7 29. Rom. 4. 11 16. Therefore he hath that covenant of which Abraham was a pattern subject made with him viz. That God will be his God and the God of his seed Luk. 19. 9. Arg. 2. Such children as are by Christ affirmed to have a place and portion in the Kingdome of Heaven they have a place and portion in the visible Church and so consequently are members thereof But so it is with some children Math. 19. 14. Mark 10. 14. Luk 18. 16. The Proposition is evident for the Kingdome of heaven or of God is sundry times used to expresse the visible Church or Church estate Math. 25. 1. and 21. 43. and 8. 12. And if the Disciples might or should have known that those children were to be admitted to Christ upon that ground then the Kingdome-Interest of such children was a visible or knowable and apparent thing If any should expound it of the Kingdome of Glory yet that would inferre the same thing For neither may the Church exclude those from her fellowship who by Christ his testimony are visible heirs of Glory nor are any in ordinary course heirs of the Kingdome of Glory that are not of Gods visible Church and Kingdome of Grace here And what is there spoken by Christ himself as a standing truth and that under the term of the Kingdome of Heaven a term in speciall manner applied unto Gospel-Administration cannot be doubted to continue in force in the Christian Church of the new Testament Arg. 3. If no children be members of the visible Church then was not the Lord Jesus when a child a member of the visible Church but none we presume will venture to say so of Christ Arg. 4. If it were not so no children might be Baptized For Baptisme being a Church Ordinance and a seal of being incorporated into the Church 1 Cor. 12. 13. and succeeding circumcision which was proper to the Church none can be subjects immediately capable thereof but Church-Members Nor doth the Power of Officers as such extend further then to the Churches as they cannot judge so they may not Baptize them that are without or non-members Arg. 5. They that are some of the Disciples intended in Mat. 28. 19. are Church-members For as the term Disciples is ordinarily used for Church-Members Act. 6. 1 2 3 5. and 9. 26. and 14. 22 23 27 28 and 18. 27. and Vers. 22. with Chap. 21. 16. and 20. 7. So this sense thereof best suits that place in Matthew 28. 19. because the Disciples there are the immediate subjects of Baptisme and so of being called by God his name the wonted Title of Church-Members and because they are such as are subjected to Christs School to Christs Doctrine and Discipline and to the authoritative teaching of his Ministers and observation of all things that shall be taught by them ver. 20. But some children are some of the Disciples intended in Mat. 28. 19. For 1. some children were some of those whom the Apostles in accomplishing that commission did Disciple Acts 15. 20. Those whom the false Teachers