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A96712	The summe of diverse sermons preached in Dublin, before the L. Deputie Fleetwood, and the Commissioners of Parliament for the affairs of Ireland. wherein the doctrine of infant-baptism is asserted, and the main objections of Mr. Tombs, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Blackwood, and others, answered / by Samuel Winter ...	Winter, Samuel, 1603-1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3089; ESTC R43829	127,074	209

and are therefore true if performed to any person in any fort Heb. 11.27 Many spiritual and so temporal promises are indefinitely propounded and so to be understood not that the Lord intends an absolute and universal obligation of himself neither is the act of faith in the application of it required to be an absolute and infallible persuasion that God will bestow these particular things upon us but the Lord expects we should rely on him to do what is most for his glory and our good But let me tell you faith may do much Mat. 9. When he saw their faith he said to the sick of the palsie Be bold thy sins are forgiven thee When he saw their faith that is the faith of them that brought him So when he sees the faith of parents bringing their children to Christ in the visible way of this Ordinance for I know no other visible way to bring children to Christ he saith to them Your sins are forgiven you Thus children are saved by the faith of the parents begetting faith in them Hence that passage of David concerning his child I shall go to it it shall not return to me he means not of that state of death in the grave for what comfort could that be to David that he should go to the the grave with it but the state of glory to which he was assured it was gone and to which he should follow after Tenthly I am apt to be very charitable to the Infants of all believers that dy before they commit actual transgression Cedo quo nomine filij vestri salvantur nisi ex illo verbo Ego sum deus seminis tui ac nisi illud verbum ad illos pertin●ret ne ad baptismum quidem admittendi essent Cal. Inst Quicunque in dei foedere gratiose semel est neque unquam ab illo foeder● se avertit ille ●ona promissa consequitur nunquam enim descrit de●● nisi deserent●m See Forb heaven surely is fuller of such Infants than of others and therefore as he said so say I If I had 20 Children I would not bate God one But how are these Children saved if not by that Covenant I will be thy God and the God of thy seed from which gracious Covenant if afterwards they turn not away they obtain the things promised and their souls are bound up in a bundle of life for ever See p. 69. Obj. There was no promise of eternal life mentioned in that Covenant Ans In that Covenant God promised them temporals more largely spirituals more sparingly according to his secret dispensations of these and those times they were children Hence the motto of the Prince of Wales I SERVE Gal. 5.4 a child differs not from a servant and thus the Hebrew naguo● the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latine word puer signifie either a child or a servant and a child differs not from a servant in his nonage now children are more taken with childish things therefore they had more of temporals and less of spirituals more of the spirit of bondage than the spirit of adoption that is that spirit that makes us sons 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and testifies we are sons but yet we say in that Covenant life is propounded implicitly in that he saith I will be thy God which is interpreted by our Savior to include not onely spirituel life here but eternal life hereafter Christ by virtue of his spiritual dwelling in us will raise us up at the last day for as the union betwixt Christ's humane and divine nature ceased not even in the grave so neither doth the union betwixt Christ and the soul and the body cease Rom. 8. Seeing that we are not raised by the graces of the spirit but by the spirit it self dwelling in us it is true Christ as Mediator shall cease having yielded up that vicarium Regnum to his father but he continues head of the Church for ever 2. When the Lord explains that Covenant Ier. 31.33 Doth he not say I will be their God their sins and iniquities will I remember no more and are not our souls bound up in this as in a bundle of life is not here justification of life for children to lay hold upon Nay when the Lord saith I will write my Law in their hearts and they shall all know me from the lest to the greatest that is yong and old is not this the Law of the spirit of life and will not he write the Law of faith too by which we live the life of the sons of God Gal. 2.20 3. That blessedness spoken of Gen. 12.3 is explained by Paul to be justification by faith Gal. 3.8.14 called there the blessing of Abraham which comes upon the Gentiles that is parents and children Act. 3. blessedness is expressed by turning every one from his evil way Esa 44.3 I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thy offspring Is not here a spirit of life are not the essentials of regeneration promised here to babes and is not that mother promise I will be thy God the ground of all these Gal. 3.14 4. What is the meaning of that phrase Do this and live may it not evangelically be taken as well as legally Ezek. 20. Neh. 9 Which if a man keep he shall live therein What force is there in these words with reverence be it spoken if understood in their sense for might not the spiritual Israelites say To what purpose is it What hopes have we of attaining to that perfection and so consequently to life It 's granted the carnal Israelites being not sensible of their own weakness and imperfections looked at that Covenant as a Covenant of works and so seemingly it was propounded but the spiritual Israelites look'd at it with another ey as it was propounded with evangelical purposes that is Do this in Christ and live Hence it was that the Lord bid Moses put the Tables into the Ark as signifying That Christ was to keep Covenant with them and for them as hath been formerly shewed Obj. None ever had any interest in that Covenant but such as were in Christ Ans Never any had any saving interest in that absolute Covenant but such as are in Christ in truth and reality but there are others that are in Christ as the unprofitable branch in the Vine Some render the words as the Syr. renders it viz. Every branch that beare not fruit in me Joh 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that bringeth forth fruit to it self these having entered into Covenant with God may be said to be under the Covenant conditionally of which conditional promises the Sacraments are seals and by virtue of it be made partakers not onely of temporals but also of those common graces by which they are sanctified for this or that particular service Heb. 10.29 And hath counted the bloud of the Covenant an unholy thing wherewith he was sanctified Which grace is sometimes called life