A26923:539
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches
An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches by reconciling explication without much disputing. Written by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1691
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.
§. 2. Not that his Infant seed was the first that was taken into Covenant. For the Covenant of Grace had from the beginning been made with the Faithful and their Seed, as well as the Covenant of Innocency was.
§. 3. The Peculiarities of this Covenant were Initially promulgate to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; and more fully to the Jews as a Politic Body, by Moses in the Law; with some particular Sub-additions by David and the Prophets.
§. 3. The Peculiarities of this Covenant were Initially promulgate to Abraham, Isaac and Iacob; and more fully to the Iews as a Politick Body, by Moses in the Law; with some particular Sub-additions by David and the Prophets.
§. 4. 1st. The Promise to Abraham was, besides the Common Covenant of Grace, renewed. 1. A promise of peculiar Favour to his Seed increased to a political Society in Canaan, and differenced by special Mercies from all the People of the Earth. 2. A promise that the Messiah should be of his Seed.
§. 5. This Covenant did not Discovenant the rest that the World, nor put them into any worse Condition than they were before.