A57966:313
The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace
The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the sovereignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace containing something of the nature of the covenant of works, the soveraignty of God, the extent of the death of Christ ... the covenant of grace ... of surety or redemption between the by Samuel Rutherford ...
Edinburgh: printed by Andro Anderson for Robert Brown, 1655
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.
Obj. Shall not, by this means, all the Infants of all the Gentiles be ingrafted in, and baptized?
Answ. The Text warrants us to say it only of the Children of the ingrafted and called Gentiles, that they have right to baptism.
Obj. This Text is spoken of these that have hereditary Covenant-right, from their natural Father Abraham. We Gentiles ⟨p. 116⟩have not that natural relation to Abraham,1 nor are we his natural sons, nor branches?
Obj. This Text is spoken of these that have hereditary Covenant-right, from their naturall Father Abraham. We Gentiles ⟨p. 116⟩have not that naturall relation to Abraham,1 nor are we his naturall sons, nor branches?
- 1The seed are in Covenant, not by birth as birth, but by such a birth, so & so graciously privileged.The seed are in Covenant, not by birth as birth, but by such a birth, so & so graciously priviledged.