The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

but only all invisible and saved. 4. If these words, The promise is to you, and to your children, be limited, to as many as the Lord shall effectually call, either fathers or children. But Mr. Stev. Marshall judiciously observes;¹ there is no more a Covenant-favour holden forth to their children, then to the children of Pagans; for the children of Pagans, if God effectually call them, have the promises made to them. 5. Its clear that external Covenant-holiness, is to these men ceremonial holiness now out of date; and then external calling the only means of internal and effectual calling, Math. 22.14. 1 Cor. 1.18.23, 24. Luke 15.1, 2. and the fixed Church-hearing of the Preached Gospel is a ceremony. 2. That God should be the God of Infants of the seed of the Jews,² a mercy to fathers and sons coming from free love, Deut. 10.15. Gen. 17.7. Deut. 7.6.7.8. and Prophesied as a mercy ⟨p. 89⟩to the Gentiles by all the Prophets was a ceremony removed now in Christ. Yea 3. external Covenanting, and adopting, and choosing of Israel is no mercy, except that a Pedagogy of the Law is a mercy for a time. 4. The promise is to you and to your children, must be in a contradictory way expounded, to wit, the promise is no more made to your children so long as they are Infants, then to Devils. Yea fathers and children not believing, though chosen to life, are excommunicated from Visible adoption, calling, hearing the Gospel promises, for there is no Covenanting now under the New Testament, but only internal Covenanting of the elect. 5. Young Timothy and children of believing Parents, and all the aged within the Visible Church,³