Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient…Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient…

Brethren, Both the Sacraments are Ordinances that are of mere positive Right, viz. depending (as to the Subjects and all Matters thereunto belonging) upon the Sovereign Will and Pleasure of the Lord Jesus, the great Law-giver; and as they that come to one Ordinance are to examine themselves and to discern the Lord's Body: So all they that come to the other are to believe in Christ, and to repent from dead Works.

Brethren, Both the Sacraments are Ordinances that are of meer positive Right, viz. depending (as to the Subjects and all Matters thereunto belonging) upon the Sovereign Will and Pleasure of the Lord Jesus, the great Law-giver; and as they that come to one Ordinance are to examine themselves and to discern the Lord's Body: So all they that come to the other are to believe in Christ, and to repent from dead Works.

You mistake, 'tis not the Eternal Covenant of Grace that you say you stand up in the Gap to maintain, but you strive to introduce, in Gospel-Times, an external relative Covenant according to the Flesh, like that Covenant of Peculiarity, which God made with Abraham and his Natural Seed, as he was a public Head and Father of the whole House of Israel, or of the National, Political and Typical Church of the Jews: Nay, you would fain have all the Seed of Believers to be in that Covenant, that peculiarly and absolutely did belong to the Natural Seed of Abraham, as such, and none else. Now 'tis this thing which we deny; we say that there was a twofold Covenant made with Abraham, signified by Sarah and Hagar: And tho there was Grace and Mercy in both, yet the Covenant of Grace or Free Promise was not made to Seeds, as of many, i. e. not to all the natural Seed of Abraham, or Seed of Believers, as such, but primarily it was made to Christ, and in him to all the Elect, who alone are in the Eternal Covenant of Grace: That the Election takes hold both of some of Believers Seed and some of the Seed of Unbelievers is evident; and tho God may comprehend in his Eternal Love more of our Seed than of the Seed of Unbelievers, ⟨p. vii⟩yet I have proved in this Treatise and Reply to Mr. Owen, that the Covenant of Grace and the Election of God runs nor to the Seed of the Faithful, as such; and also that Believers Seed nor Unbelievers Seed, until they believe in Christ, ought to be baptized, nor taken into the Visible Church; because 'tis not the Covenant of Grace. considered as such, that gives any Person a Right to Baptism, but the mere positive Command of our Lord Jesus Christ; whose express Command and Commission enjoins none to be baptized but such who are Believers, or such who are discipled by preaching the Word,