A65285:2817
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Use I. See the Riches of God's Goodness, who will not only be the God of Believers, but takes their Seed into Covenant. Gen. 17.7. I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy Seed after thee, to be a God unto thee and thy Seed. A Father counts it a great Privilege, not only to have his own Name, but his Child's Name put in a Will.
Vse I. See the Riches of God's Goodness, who will not only be the God of Believers, but takes their Seed into Covenant. Gen. 17.7. I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy Seed after thee, to be a God unto thee and thy Seed. A Father counts it a great Priviledge, not only to have his own Name, but his Child's Name put in a Will.
2. It blames those Parents who forbid little Children to be brought to Christ; they with-hold the Ordinance: By denying their Infants Baptism, they exclude them from having a Membership in the Visible Church, and so their Infants are sucking Pagans. Such as deny their Children Baptism, make God's Institutions under the Law more full of Kindness and Grace to Children, than they are now under the Gospel; which how strange a Paradox it is, I leave to you to judge.
Use. III. Exhort. 1st. Branch. We that are Baptized, let us labour to find the Blessed Fruits of Baptism in our own Souls: Let us labour not only to have the Sign of the Covenant, but the Grace of the Covenant. Many glory in this, that they are Baptized. The Jews gloried in their Circumcision, because of their Royal Privileges: To them belonged the Adoption, and the Glory, and the Covenants,