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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
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.
If you mean all spiritual blessings of life and salvation, you say true, but nothing to the question: For so it was in the Old Testament, as well as now. But as it was then, the seed of believers partook of the outward dispensation of the Covenant, and of the seal of it; so is it still, unless you could show us some Scripture whereby they are more excluded now then in the old Testament.
If you meane all spirituall blessings of life and salvation, you say true, but nothing to the question: For so it was in the Old Testament, as well as now. But as it was then, the seed of believers partaked of the outward dispensation of the Covenant, and of the seale of it; so is it still, unlesse you could shew us some Scripture whereby they are more excluded now then in the old Testament.
1Now first in Christ by faith, and then to the Covenant and privileges thereof, Gal. 3.29. None by the Gospel are approved to be the seed of Abraham, but only such as walk in the steps of his faith. For as none invisibly before God are by him approved at all to have right to any privileges of grace, but only as he looketh upon them in his Son: no more are there any before man visibly to be approved of, so as to have right to the same, but as they appear to be in Christ, by some effect of faith declaring the same. And so much the more, in that God excludeth all from his holy Covenant, so as to have right in the outward dispensation thereof, but only such as believe, Rom. 11.20. Heb. 3.18. & 4.1, 2, 3. & 11.5, 6. Rom. 9.7, 8.