righteousness and new obedience. And, 2. Only the the Lord's and therefore we engage to renounce the service of the devil, and the flesh, and the world, and. to fight under Christ's banner, against these enemies of the Lord and of our souls, Rom. vi. 4, 11, 12, 13. We are buried with him in baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. Reckon ye yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God. Let not sin therefore reign, that you should obey it in the lusts thereof: neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteous ness unto sin but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

95. Q. To whom is baptism to be administered?

A. Baptism is not to be administered unto any that are out of the visible church, till they profess their faith in Christ, and obedience to him: but the infants of such as are members of the visible church are to be baptized.

Q. 1. Is baptism to be administered unto all?

A. Baptism is not to be administred unto all, nor to any that are out of the visible church, because they be: ing out of the covenant, have no right unto the seals of the covenant. Eph. ii. 12. At that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

Q. 2. May not Heathens and Infidels be babtized? A. Heathens and Infidels, which are without the church, whilst they continue Infidels, ought not to be baptized; but if upon the preaching of the gospel unto them, they repent and believe, and make profession of their faith and resolution of obedience, they are hereby virtually within the church, and then have a right to this ordinance of baptism, and it ought not to be denied unto them, Mark xvi. 15, 16. And he said, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel unto every creature, he that believth, and is baptized, shall be saved, &c.

Q. 3. May no infants be babtized?

A. 1. No infants of Heathens and Infidels, whilst such, may be baptized, because both parents and children are out of the covenant. 2. The infants of Christians and believing parents being visible church members, may, aud ought to be baptized.

Q. 4. How do you prove that the infants of such as are visible church members, may, and ought to be baptized?

. A. That the infants of such as are visible church members, may, and ought to be baptized, may be proved, because they are in the covenant; and the promise of the covenant belonging unto them, this seal of the covenant doth belong unto them also, Acts ii. 39. The promise is unto you, and to your children. It is upon the account of the promise of the covenant that any have the seal: Hence it was that not only Abraham, but all his seed, whilst in their infancy, received the seal of ciscumcision, because the promise of this covenant was made to both; and by the same reason, not only believing parents, but also their infants, are to receive the seal of baptism, the promise being made unto both, Gen. xvii. 7, 10. I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and to thy seed after thee; to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. This is my covenant which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.

Q. 5. How do ye prove, that because the infants of the Jews under the law, had the promise and seal of the covenant of grace; namely, circumcision, whereby they were admitted to be visible church members: therefore that the infants of Christians under the gospel have the promise of the covenant of grace, and oughtto have the seal of baptism to admit them to be visible church members also ?

A. 1. That the infants of Christians have the promise of the covenant of grace made with Abraham, is evident, because that covenant was an everlasting covenant, Gen. xvii. 7. I will establish my covenant, for an everlasting covenant: to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Which covenant Christ is the

Mediator of, and it is renewed in the new testament with all believers, and that as fully as under the law and therefore if the infants under the law were included, the infants under the gospel were included too. That the privilege of infants being made church members under the law, doth belong to the infants of Christians under the gospel: besides the party of reason for it, and equality of right unto it; it is evident, because this privilege was never repealed, and taken away under the gospel.

Q. 6. How do ye prove that the privilege of infants, being made visible church members under the gospel was never taken away?

A. That the privilege of infants, being made visible church members was never taken away under the gospel, is evident : 1. Because if this privilege were repealed, we should have some notice of its repeal in the scripture; but we have no notice or signification of God's will to repeal this privilege throughout the whole book of God. 2. Because Christ did not come to take away or straiten the privileges of the church, but to enlarge them, and who can upon scripture grounds imagine that it was the will of Christ, that the infants of the Jewish church should be churchmembers, but the infants of the Christian church should be shut out like heathens and infidels? 3. Because the scripture is express, that the infants of Christians are holy, 1 Cor. vii. 14. Else were your children unclean but now are they holy. As the Jews are called in scripture a holy nation because by circumcision they were made visible church members; so the infants of Christians, as well themselves, are called holy; that is, federately holy as they are by baptism made visible church members.

Q. 7. How doth it appear that baptism doth make members of the visible church?

A That baptism doth make members of the visible church under the gospel, is evident, because it is the sacrament of initiation and admission unto the church, which our Saviour gave his diciples commission to admit persons by into his church, Mat. xxviii. 19. Go teach all nations, baptizing them, &c. or make or ad

mit disciples,as the Greek word signifieth,disciple them. Q. 8. But doth not Christ first require that people should be taught and believe, at least make a profession of their faith before they be baptized; and therefore all infants being incapable of being taught, and making profession of their faith, are they not hereby excluded the privilege of baptism?

A. That which our Saviour required of teaching and an actual profession of faith before baptism, is to be understood of the heathen nations, unto whom he sendeth his apostles to preach, who without this were not to be baptized: but there is not the same reason concerning the infants of such, who are themselves. members of the visible church. 2. The infants of church members being uncapable of being thaught and making an actual profession of faith, doth no more exclude them the privileges of baptism, than their being uncapable of working, doth exclude them liberty of eating, when the command is express, 2 Thess. iii. 10. If any man work not, neither shall he eat: notwithstanding which command, infants being uncapable of working, yet they may eat; and so infants being uncapable of professing their faith, may be baptized. 3. Infants though they are uncapable of being taught by men, and making an actual profession of their faith, yet they are capable of the grace of the covenant, by the secret work of the Spirit: For of such is the kingdom of heaven; And who will say, that all infants dying in their infancy are damned? As they must be, if they be uncapable of the grace of the covenant; and if they be capable of the grace of the covenant, they are capable of this seal of baptism.

Q. 9. How can infants have right to baptism, when we do not find throughout the whole new testament either precept or example for their baptism?

A. 1. The ordinance of baptism as to the substance of it, is expressly appointed by our Saviour in the new testament; but it is not needful that the circumstance of the time of its administration should be appointed too, when the time may be so clearly deduced by scripture consequence. 2. We do not find in the

scripture any precept or example in very words that, women shall partake of the Lord's supper; yet we believe that they did partake of the Lord's supper in the scripture time; and they being church members, and believers, capable of the actual exercise of grace, have an undoubted right unto that sacrament. 3. We have proved from scripture, that Christian infants have a right to be church members; and therefore they have a right to baptism, which admits them hereunto; and that there is no scripture repeal of this privilege. 4. We have no precept nor example concerning the infants of such as were baptized themselves, that they should, or that any of them were kept unbaptized from their infancy, until they were grown up unto the years of maturity, and did make an actual profession of their faith, and then did receive the ordinances of baptism? and why then will any do this, which they have no scripture precept nor example for? 5. There is great probability that the infants of believers in some recorded places of scripture were baptized in their infancy, where whole housholds were baptized together; it is not said, that the infants in such houses were excluded; and why then should we exclude infants from the ordinances, whom God hath no where excluded?

96. Q. What is the Lord's supper ?

A. The Lord's supper is a sacrament, wherein by giving and receiving bread and wine, according to Christ's appointment, his death is shewed forth and the worthy receivers are not after a corporal and carnal manner, but by faith made partakers of his body and blood, with all his benefits to their spiritual nourishment and growth in grace.

Q. 1. How many things are most considerable in the Lord's supper ?

A. There are eight things most considerable in the Lord's supper; 1. The nature of it. 2. The author of it. 3 The outward elements and actions. 4. The eternal mysteries, or the things signified. 5. The subjects of it, or the persons that have right to receive it. 6. The manner how it is to be received. 7. The benefit of it. 8. The end of it.