P. Quest. 4. Did not Christ as a Covenanter undertake all this? And do we do so too? And do not we in Baptism our selves, consent and promise, to take God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for our Father, Saviour and Sanctifier, and to forsake the flesh, the world and the devil? Is it Christ only that is Baptized? Nay did Christ ever receive such a Baptism as this, to wash away his sins, and deliver him a pardon? Is it Christ or we that at Baptism make these promises to God? Is it to Christ or us that Christ himself saith, If thou believe and repent thou shalt be saved? Doth Christ as King make Laws and Covenants to bind himself only? Who seeth not, that hath any sense of Scripture matters, that The Mediators case, office and work is one, and ours another: that It is one Law that was given him, and another to us: yea, that which seemeth the same was another, being not formally but materially only the same (and forma denominat:) For he was to fulfil the Law of Moses and of Innocency, to such ends (as a Redeemer) and with such difference from our case, that it was not formally but materially (and that but in part) the same Law: and so his Baptism was formally another thing from any ones Baptism else in the World. It was one thing that Christ promised and undertook in his Covenant with the Father, and it's another thing that we undertake and promise. It's one thing that God promiseth to Christ upon his Merits (that he shall see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied) and another thing that he promiseth us (that our persons shall be Justified, sanctified and saved.) In a word, by the Law given to Christ, Christ himself is Governed as a Subject, and Justified and Rewarded by God as his Judge for fulfilling it. By the Law given to us, we are the subjects and Christ is the Governor, Lawgiver and our Judge, who will Justify, reward, or condemn and punish us.
I know not how that man can preach the Gospel that knoweth not the difference between the Law and Covenant made to and with Christ as Mediator, and the Law and Covenant made to and with us, and in Baptism solemnly professed! Children should not be ignorant of it.
P. Quest. 4. Did not Christ as a Covenanter undertake all this? And do we do so too? And do not we in Baptism our selves, consent and promise, to take God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for our Father, Saviour and Sanctifier, and to forsake the flesh, the world and the devil? Is it Christ only that is Baptized? Nay did Christ ever receive such a Baptism as this, to wash away his sins, and deliver him a pardon? Is it Christ or we that at Baptism make these promises to God? Is it to Christ or us that Christ himself saith, If thou believe and repent thou shalt be saved? Doth Christ as King make Laws and Covenants to bind himself only? Who seeth not, that hath any sense of Scripture matters, that The Mediators case, office and work is one, and ours another: that It is one Law that was given him, and another to us: yea, that which seemeth the same was another, being not formally but materially only the same (and forma denominat:) For he was to fulfil the Law of Moses and of Innocency, to such ends (as a Redeemer) and with such difference from our case, that it was not formally but materially (and that but in part) the same Law: and so his Baptism was formally another thing from any ones Baptism else in the World. It was one thing that Christ promised and undertook in his Covenant with the Father, and it's another thing that we undertake and promise. It's one thing that God promiseth to Christ upon his Merits (that he shall see of the •ravail of his soul and be satisfied) and another thing that he promiseth us (that our persons shall be Justified, sanctified and saved.) In a word, by the Law given to Christ, Christ himself is Governed as a Subject, and Justified and Rewarded by God as his Judge for fulfilling it. By the Law given to us, we are the subjects and Christ is the Governour, Lawgiver and our Judge, who will Justifie, reward, or condemn and punish us.
I know not how that man can preach the Gospel that knoweth not the difference between the Law and Covenant made to and with Christ as Mediatour, and the Law and Covenant made to and with us, and in Baptism solemnly prosessed! Children should not be ignorant of it.
