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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.
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, Gen. 9.9, 10, 11. And this Covenant was only an appointment of God, ⟨p. 65⟩it did not require any consent or agreement of man, much less of other creatures, to make it a Covenant. It is therefore a manifest error, to make the agreement or consent on mans part essential to a Covenant between God and man.
1As the heavens are higher then the earth, so are the wayes of God higher then our wayes, (Esa. 55.9.) and in speciall the wayes of his grace, and of the Covenant thereof, with men indeed mutuall 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 onely with Noah and his seed, but also with the Fowles and Beasts, and every living creature, that he would never send a flood to destroy them from off the face of the earth, Gen. 9.9, 10, 11. And this Covenant was onely an appointment of God, ⟨p. 65⟩it did not require any consent or agreement of man, much lesse of other creatures, to make it a Covenant. It is therefore a manifest error, to make the agreement or consent on mans part essentiall to a Covenant between God and man.