A26864:407
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression…
Rich. Baxters apology against the modest exceptions of Mr. T. Blake and the digression of Mr. G. Kendall whereunto is added animadversions on a late dissertation of Ludiomæus Colvinus, aliaà Ludovicus Molinæs̳, M. Dr. Oxon, and an admonition of Mr. W. Eyre of Salisbury : with Mr. Crandon's Anatomy for satisfaction of Mr. Caryl.
London: printed by A.M. for Thomas Underhill, 1654
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§. 41.
R. B. What Absurdities follow such a restraint of it to sound believers, as I have asserted, I should be willing to know, though with some labour I searched for it. Bear with me therefore, while I examine what you refer me to. It is pag. 209. where you charge those Absurdities. And the first is this, 1. This restriction of the Covenant (to shut out all the non-regenerate) makes an utter confusion between the Covenant it self and the conditions of it: or (if the expression do not please) the Covenant it self and the duties required in it; between our entrance into Covenant, and our observation of it, or walking up in faithfulness to it. All know that a bargain for a sum of money, and the payment of that sum; the covenant with a servant for labour, and the labour according to this covenant, are different things. Faithful men that make a bargain, keep it; enter covenant, and stand to it: But the making and keeping; the entering and observing are not the same; and now according to this opinion, Regeneration is our entrance into Covenant, and Regeneration is our keeping of Covenant: before Regeneration we make no Covenant, after Regeneration we break no Covenant, there is no such thing as Covenant-breaking. All this makes an utter confusion in the Covenant.
R. B. WHat Absurdities follow such a restraint of it to sound believers, as I have asserted, I should be willing to know, though with some labor I searched for it. Bear with me therefore, while I examine what you refer me to. It is pag. 209. where you charge those Absurdities. And the first is this, 1. This restriction of the Covenant (to shut out all the non-regenerate) makes an utter confusion between the Covenant it self and the conditions of it: or (if the expression do not please) the Covenant it self and the duties required in it; between our entrance into Covenant, and our observation of it, or walking up in faithfulness to it. All know that a bargain for a summe of money, and the payment of that summe; the covenant with a servant for labor, and the labor according to this covenant, are different things. Faithful men that make a bargain, keep it; enter covenant, and stand to it: But the making and keeping; the entering and observing are not the same; and now according to this opinion, Regeneration is our entrance into Covenant, and Regeneration is our keeping of Covenant: before Regeneration we make no Covenant, after Regeneration we break no Covenant, there is no such thing as Covenant-breaking. All this makes an utter confusion in the Covenant.