A25291:1411
The Marrow of Sacred Divinity
The marrow of sacred divinity drawn out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latin ... ; whereunto are annexed certain tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.The marrow of sacred divinity drawne out of the Holy Scriptures, and the interpreters thereof, and brought into method / by William Ames ... ; translated out of the Latine ... ; whereunto are annexed certaine tables representing the substance and heads of all in a short view ... as also a table opening the hard words therein contained.
London: printed by Edward Griffin for Henry Overton, 1642
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
11. Hence also, Secondly, Baptism ought to be administered to all those to whom the covenant of grace pertains, because it is the first sealing of the covenant it self now first begun.
11. Hence also, Secondly, Baptisme ought to be administred to all those to whom the covenant of grace pertaines, because it is the first sealing of the covenant it selfe now first begun.
12. But that the infants of the faithful are not to be forbidden this Sacrament, it appeareth. 1. Because if they be partakers of any grace, it is by virtue of the covenant of grace, and so both the covenant, and the first seal of the covenant also doth pertain to them. 2. In that the covenant in which the faithful are now contained, is the same with that covenant which was made with Abraham. Rom. 4. 11. Gal. 3. 7, 8, 9. But that did expressly extend unto Infants. 3. This covenant which is now administered to the faithful, doth bring more large and full consolation to them, then of old it could before the coming of Christ. But if it should pertain only to them, and not to their Infants, then the grace of God and their consolation should be more narrow, and contracted after Christ is exhibited then before it was. 4. Because baptism succeeded in the place of circumcision. Col. 2. 11. 12. And so doth pertain as well to the children of believers as circumcision itself. 5. Because in the very beginning of regeneration, whereof baptism is a seal, man is merely passive; whence also there is no outward action required of a man either to be circumcised or baptised, as in other Sacraments, but only a passive receiving: therefore Infants, are as capable of this Sacrament in respect of the chief use of it, as these of age are.
12. But that the infants of the faithfull are not to be forbidden this Sacrament, it appeareth. 1. Because if they be partakers of any grace, it is by vertue of the covenant of grace, and so both the covenant, and the first seale of the covenant also doth pertaine to them. 2. In that the covenant in which the faithfull are now contained, is the same with that covenant which was made with Abraham.