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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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4. This let me further add, that whereas you in this discourse of the first fruits and lump speak of the Jews to be converted, as but a remnant: The Apostle declareth himself to the contrary, that then all Israel shall be saved, Rom. 11.26. Yea, not only a body of the Jews, but of the ten Tribes also, all Israel, according to what Ezekiel had prophesied of old, Ezek. 37.16. to 22. And indeed, when the Apostle calleth the conversion of Israel a mystery, (Rom. 11.25.) he giveth us to expect a more general conversion of them, then of a remnant. The Apostle in like sort called the conversion of the Gentiles a mystery, Ephes. 3.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And a mystery (and hidden secret) indeed it was to the Jews of old; and yet it was never a mystery to them the conversion of a remnant, or of a sprinkling of the Gentiles, but the coming in of such a great body and multitude of the Gentiles, that was indeed a mystery to them. And so is the conversion of the Jews a mystery now unto the Gentiles, not the conversion of a remnant, but of so great a multitude and body of the house of Israel, as have been scattered like dry dead bones (Ezek. 37.) that indeed seemeth to be a mystery like the resurrection from the dead, whereto the Apostle resembleth it.
4. This let me further adde, that whereas you in this discourse of the first fruits and lump speake of the Jewes to bee converted, as but a remnant: The Apostle declareth himselfe to the contrary, that then all Israel shall be saved, Rom. 11.26. Yea, not onely a body of the Jewes, but of the ten Tribes also, all Israel, according to what Ezekiel had prophecyed of old, Ezek. 37.16. to 22. And indeed, when the Apostle calleth the conversion of Israel a mystery, (Rom. 11.25.) he giveth us to expect a more generall conversion of them, then of a remnant. The Apostle in like sort called the conversion of the Gentiles a mystery,