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people, and is forihc pcopio held. But the true constMutiooal iOWkim of a Chri:4ian Mate \fi, th^t all jiower At* «c«ikIs from Christ, aiul is li^ld for (heinttTreNli9of hUctiurcbfdivd tliepromotiofiortheOo&pelifiAwas flcn said to the Jews, '* The land h not your'*, ibut the lat>d i& mine, sailh tlie Lord of hoists/' ow, if il be tmu of nil the good.-, properties, rigfbu and po&seAiiions, of our several c^latcs, tb&t l^py aro lo he held of (iod, and for hin Son'^ ^kingdom to be administered, bow much more ii it true of thai poctesnion of possessions, the im- mortal fwuls of our children; any single oMof lAvhieh is more valnnble tlian the world nnd all that contains: for which eouU the world wiis created ■"to be their iimlerial ahoile, for tlie r^deuiption of iWhich ChriM died; and for their eafe conduct through the wilderness hath holh established eirit poUty and constituted a church. Nay* but th?it his right in the souts ot dnldren -might be established beyond nil question and lispule, he hath estnhli<t1i«d the 5acrament of , baptism, ^vheri^hy, at any the moat tender n^e, i-Biigbt be solemnly signified hia redemption of -them from the nutural inheritance of death, idio the inheritance of life spiritual and eternal, by the [Hiwcr of Father, Son, and Holy Ghn^. So that 1 do understand, and most surely believe, that every parent doth in the mystery of 6ap- ^Hism» as it were, forestal tlie death nnd tnjriat of his child, signifying that to be the end of all he can give it; while Christ doth forexhevr the birib tif the child into an elernal life, which shall come in course of faith: so ihRt there h a virtual transfer of the littlo one. ffom a natural birth* 'i^t of dealht into a siriritnal iMrtbiight of life. and a vtUing dedictiicm of it to Ohrtst, froTO ivliom tt hath Ibis infinite beqneat, together with tbc rcnuQciution of any furtlicr right in it snTc as Clirist's steward for the dae rearing up of the Doniftge and incomi>etHicy of the spirit, which is thus signified to lie born. Sueh arc the pirents bf ch'rJriren, in the eye of Christ and hi« churchp inslihitcd in solorcn trast over Ihe spirits for rhJch Christ died, and which he hath claimed ss own to save and tntlow them with everlasting i-life- And what, a^in, is the teacher of children * fciub-»^ent, if I msy so speak, upon this mofft Excellent trust ; one who is fitted, and prepared, and selected for doing that otfice which parents by Uicir much occupation and business do oft disqualify themselves from doing. Not that