R.was going to put the very question which I intended to ask." _Mr.R._ Proceed, Br.

S.I owe an apology for speaking so much.
_Mr.S._ Will Br.

A., Mr.Chairman, please to tell us why he feels obliged to call these children "_members_ of the church ?" For, we all know, that, notwithstanding all these glorious things, which are spoken of them, to which Br.

A.has also referred, not one baptized child of a true believer can be, really, a member of the church, in regular standing, till he, like the unbaptized heathen convert, has repented of his sins and believed on the Lord Jesus.

All the promises and privileges appertaining to his relationship as a child of a believer, promote, and make more certain, his repentance and faith; and therefore, if asked, "What profit, then, hath circumcision, and its substitute, infant baptism ?" we can reply, "Much every way;" but it never stood, and never can stand, in the place of justification by free grace through the personal exercise of faith in the Redeemer.
_Mr.C._ But I wish to ask, in the name of Br.