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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	good_a	spirit_n	word_n	4,029	5	3.9896	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96525	The sealed fountaine opened to the faithfull, and their seed. Or, a short treatise, shewing, that some infants are in the state of grace, and capable of the seales, and others not. Being the chief point, wherein the separatists doe blame the Anabaptists. By John Wilkinson, prisoner at Colchester, against John Morton prisoner at London.	Wilkinson, John, of Bernards Inne.	1646 (1646)	Wing W2243; Thomason E1205_2; ESTC R208780	11,502	29

THE SEALED FOVNTAINE opened to the Faithfull and their Seed OR A short Treatise shewing that some Infants are in the state of Grace and capable of the seales and others not Being the chief point wherein the Separatists doe blame the Anabaptists By JOHN WILKINSON Prisoner at Colchester against John Morton Prisoner at London Satis est cui contingit nitil am●lius opiat ISA. 59. 21. As for me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord My Spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seed nor out of the mouth of thy seeds seed saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever ISA. 65. 23. They shall not labour in vaine nor bring forth for trouble for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and their off spring with them ACT. 2. 38. The promise is unto you and to your Children and to all that are afarre off even as many as the Lord our God shall call To all that love the Lord Jesus in Sincerity and fervently desire a further revealing of the mysteries of his Kingdome Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplyed c. BEloved Brethern and Sisters in our only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ This little Treatise being composed by one of my ancient Brethren departed in the Faith was left in my cust●die for the publicke good and therfore considering how needfull it would be to be published rather then ●bscured I thought none was more fit to have the speciall use thereof then those who have the spirit of discerning through the knowledge of the Word of Truth whereby to perceive the manifest difference between Babels Brats and SIONS Babes for the which respect I have presented it chiefly unto you intreating you to peruse it with understanding and weigh it with discretion and as the Noble Men of Berea did so doe yee search and examine whether the scope thereof be agreeable to the Scriptures or no. There are many which strive to enter into the Kingdome of heaven but are not able a Luke 13 24. because they want Faith b Heb 18 ●9 which is the gift of GOD c Ephe 2 8. GOD can give his guifts to whom he pleaseth d Luk 12 2. but he will not doe all which he can doe e Exo 19 19 though he can doe all that he will doe f Mat 19 ●6 To thinke it any deficiencie in GOD because he doth not or unbountifullnesse because he will not argues a carnall and sensuall disposition GOD could have spared the infants of the floud from dr●wning g Gen 7 4. and Sodoms seed from burning h Gen. 18. 24 He could have spared the first borne of the Aegyptians i Ex 12 29 and might have left out that Commandement where the Children of Idolaters were commanded to be slain with their Idolatrous Parents k 1 Sam. 1 3. but he would not because it stood not with his Justice it was his will and pleasure so to doe who doth what he will in heaven and in earth c. and who dare controle him l Dan. 4 Psal 135 GOD is as good as his word who hath in all ages from the beginning visited the sinnes of the Fathers upon the Children unto the third and fourth generation and will doe so to the end m Exo 10 GODS two witnesses * Isa 29 Psal 119 105 can produce many examples hereof we have the Law Prophesies and Gospel whose testimony none ought to refuse under paine of damnation But it is the property of those who are unlearned in God's Law and unstable in their wayes * Iam. 1. 8 to wrest the Scripture to their own destruction n 2 Pet 3 ●6 or else seek to restraine the power and efficacie thereof much like to the foure Angels which John saw stand upon the foure corners of the Earth to hold the foure winds of the Earth that they should not blow Rev. 7. 1. Of this sort are those which would seek to withold the Covenant of the Gospel from Ezra 9 2. Psal 128 holy Infants o the young ●live plants * of beleeving Parents it is apparent that to plucke up these plants is to plucke up the plants which the right hand of our heavenly Father hath planted p Mat 19 13 14 15. which are the Children of those Parents upon whom GOD hath promised to write his owne name and the name of his holy Citty That just God which did break off the naturall branches the Iewes for unbeliefes sake together with Exod 15 25 their seed the same God hath by his own right hand graffed us in their stead q Rom 11 19 20 and shall we presume to imagine that he forgot our seed Mose's who was guided by the Spirit of God forgot not the seed of the faithfull r Deut 32 sure I am Christ being more faithfull in his House then ever Moses was ſ Heb 3 2 3. hath not made a separation between the faithfull and their seed but remembreth his Covenant saying I will be a GOD unto thee and unto thy Seed c. t Gen 17 7 seeing that God is their God they are his People and such are visible members of Christs Church which is his Body and Mount Sion in which place GOD hath promised the blessing even life unto eternity u Psa 133 3 Therefore in what a wofull condition are those who say all Infants are in one * Ia 2 13 condition and that no Infants are under the Covenant of Grace herein they seek to bind that which God never bound and to loose that which God never loosed v He 13 8 for Jesus Christ is yesterday to day and the same for ever Thus when they have brought forth in outward action that which they had in conception it tends to the destruction of the Covenant of the Lord of glory which is the bond of all Christian communion and fellowship And those which say that the Infants of Beleevers have no part in this Covenant let them tell us in what estate they be if they say they are to be accounted in the state of salvation then they must needs grant that they are to be accounted within the Covenant of grace to whom the outward priviledges of the Covenant doe belong w Rev 22 14. If they say they are in the state of damnation and have no promise at all but are as the Children whom GOD 2 Pet 3 20 21 Isa 34 9 10. destroyed with their wicked Parents some with water others with fire and brimstone c. I say and will affirme that this their Doctrine hath sprung from a bitter root it tends to make the lives of all Infants bitter because thereby they make bitter meanes of the preservation of the life of their soules In this they are like to the fallen Starre whose name was