SECT. IX.
R. B. WHen Jonas preached to Ninive, it was all the race of man among them, without exception, from the greatest to the least, that was to fast and join in the humiliation:
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
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- More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
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Ergo, all, even Infants as well as others, were to partake of the remission. If you say, the beasts were to fast too: I answer, as they were capable in their kind of part of the curse, so were they of part of the benefit, but their capacity was not as mans: They fasted to manifest mans humilia∣tion. And if by the humiliation of the aged the beasts sped the better in their kind, no wonder if Infants sped the better in theirs, and according to their capacities, and that was to have a remissi∣on suitable to their sin.
Mr. T's Answer. Neither aged nor infants were visible Church-members, &c.
Reply. This only proveth by parity of Reason, their capacity of it, and that they would have been such, if they had truely turned to God: which yet I cannot say that many of them did not according to the terms of the Common Co∣venant of Grace made with Adam and Noe, though they came not under the Covenant of pe∣culiarity: And if so (as Repentance is to be inter∣preted in the best sense till the contrary be pro∣ved) I leave it to the Reader, whether Gods laying on the Infants their share (as capable) in the humiliation, imply not such a share as they are capable of in the benefit? And the case of the Israelites Infants sheweth what they were capable of. Mr. T's denial is no disproof.