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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.
1The Covenant it self is a Covenant of grace and salvation, by which God of his grace takes a person or a people to himself above all others, to be their God, and to manifest upon them the riches of his grace and glory. And the manner of this is in effect, Gods calling of a man to an agreement with himself in his Son, wherein he promiseth to be his God, and to give him life and happiness, and all things in Christ; and that he shall believe and rest upon his faithfulness and truth, and so take him for his God, &c. So that the Covenant consisteth of 3. Essentials: 1. The persons (two or moe) disposed to agree. 2. Something to agree upon. 3. Their mutual consent, which is the agreement it self.
1The Covenant it selfe is a Covenant of grace and salvation, by which God of his grace takes a person or a people to himself above all others, to be their God, and to manifest upon them the riches of his grace and glory. And the manner of this is in effect, Gods calling of a man to an agreement with himself in his Son, wherein he promiseth to be his God, and to give him life and happinesse, and all things in Christ; and that he shall believe and rest upon his faithfullnesse and truth, and so take him for his God, &c. So that the Covenant consisteth of 3. Essentialls: 1. The persons (two or moe) disposed to agree. 2. Something to agree upon. 3. Their mutuall consent, which is the agreement it self.
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1As the heavens are higher then the earth, so are the ways of God higher then our ways, (Esa. 55.9.) and in special the ways of his grace, and of the Covenant thereof, with men indeed mutual agreement and consent is necessary to a Covenant, but with God, Gods appointment maketh a Covenant, whether the creature consent to an agreement or no. God sometimes made a Covenant, and established it, not only with Noah and his seed, but also with the Fowls and Beasts, and every living creature, that he would never send a flood to destroy them from off the face of the earth,