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The grounds and ends of the baptism of the children of the faithful. Opened…The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened…
The grounds and ends of the baptism of the children of the faithful. Opened in a familiar discourse by way of a dialogue, or brotherly conference. / By the learned and faithful minister of Christ, John Cotton, teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England.The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened in a familiar discourse by way of a dialogue, or brotherly conference. / By the learned and faithfull minister of Christ, John Cotton, teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England.
London: printed by R.C. for Andrew Crooke, 1646
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Answ. No greater absurdity then to say, that circumcision was a seal of the Covenant of works to the carnal seed of Abraham. For Paul speaking of the two Covenants under which the twofold seed of Abraham lay, he saith, As it was then, so is it now: As ⟨p. 43⟩it was then in the old Testament, so it is now in the New: Gal. 4.29. Read from vers. 24. to the end of that chapter. As it was then, so is it now; not only in this respect, that he that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the spirit: But in this also, that as then some of the seed of Abraham were born of Hagar, that is, born of the Covenant of works, and born after the flesh: and some were born of Sarah the free-woman, that is, born of the Covenant of grace, and born after the Spirit; so is it now, in the days of the new Testament.
Answ. No greater absurdity then to say, that circumcision was a seale of the Covenant of works to the carnall seed of Abraham. For Paul speaking of the two Covenants under which the twofold seed of Abraham lay, hee saith, As it was then, so is it now: As ⟨p. 43⟩it was then in the old Testament, so it is now in the New: Gal. 4.29. Read from vers. 24. to the end of that chapter. As it was then, so is it now; not onely in this respect, that he that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him that was borne after the spirit: But in this also, that as then some of the seed of Abraham were born of Hagar, that is, born of the Covenant of works, and born after the flesh: and some were born of Sarah the free-woman, that is, born of the Covenant of grace, and born after the Spirit; so is it now, in the days of the new Testament.
But to give you a further answer and safer, and more generally accepted; Let me show you, how the carnal seed of Abraham might then, and may now partake (after a sort) in the Covenant of grace, and in the seal of the Covenant of grace, and yet fall away from grace: and nevertheless their falling from grace be no countenance to the Arminian error of apostasy from grace.