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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.
Your last place out of Gal. 3.22, 26, 29. argueth the same that the former places have done, that believers are partakers of Christ by faith, and of adoption by Christ; that they are the justified seed of Abraham, and heirs according to promise. So was it in the Old Testament, and so is it still to this day. But this doth not prove now, no more then it did then, that all are excluded from the outward dispensation of the Covenant but believers only.
Your last place out of Gal. 3.22, 26, 29. argueth the same that the former places have done, that believers are partakers of Christ by faith, and of adoption by Christ; that they are the justified seed of Abraham, and heires according to promise. So was it in the Old Testament, and so is it still to this day. But this doth not prove now, no more then it did then, that all are excluded from the outward dispensation of the Covenant but believers onely.
But notwithstanding all this, though the Covenant which God made with Abraham before Christ, 1and this under Christ, be in some respect in substance the same, yet in the outward dispensation and profession of them, the difference will appear to be very great, both in respect of persons and things, wherein our dissent chiefly lieth. 1. That Covenant admitted of a fleshly seed, this only of a spiritual, Gen. 17. Rom. 9. 2. That in the flesh, this in the heart, Gen. 17.13. with Jer. 31.33.