2. You conceive that their two sons type out the different subjects of the same. But neither of both these will stand with the Apostles words, nor scope. His scope is to dispute not against infants to exclude them from being subjects of the Church: but to exclude legal Justiciaries (such as desired to be under the law) from being children of the Covenant of grace. The words of the Apostle are these: The two Mothers, are the two Covenants, v. 24. not the old state of the Church in the Old Testament, and the new state of the Church in the New Testament; Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, (saith he) and answereth (or standeth in the same rank, as the word signifieth) to Jerusalem that now is, v. 25. Mark that I pray you, he saith, not to Jerusalem in her old estate, in the days of the godly Kings, and holy Priests, and Prophets, and people (the Saints of the Lord who looked to be saved by the grace of Christ, as well as we, Acts 15.11.) but to Jerusalem that now is, under the corrupt and degenerate Priests and Rulers, Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadducees, who renounced Christ, and the righteousness of faith in him, and seek to establish their own righteousness which is by the law. And though some of them received Christ, (as did the false Teachers in the Churches of Galatia) and did also acknowledge their freedom from the sacrifices and burnt offerings, and from many other Levitical Ceremonies of the Law, yet so long as they looked to be justified by the works of the moral law, and retained circumcision as still necessary by the law, they still pertained to Jerusalem that now is (as the Apostle calleth it) and all of them were children of the bond-woman, that is, of the ⟨p. 156⟩Covenant of the Law given on Mount Sinai. It is therefore a gross error, and withal a notorious injury to the godly Saints that lived in the days of the Old Testament, to account them the children of Hagar, and to make it a part of their bondage, that their Infants were received into the fellowship of the Church with themselves. No, no, whilst themselves believed in the promised seed for righteousness and salvation, and their children were circumcised into the grace of the Covenant (the righteousness of faith) they and their seed were accounted the children of the Covenant of grace, (the free-woman) till any of them rejected that grace, as Ishmael and Esau did.
2. You conceive that their two sons type out the different subjects of the same. But neither of both these will stand with the Apostles words, nor scope. His scope is to dispute not against infants to exclude them from being subjects of the Church: but to exclude legall Justiciaries (such as desired to be under the law) from being children of the Covenant of grace. The words of the Apostle are these: The two Mothers, are the two Covenants, v. 24. not the old state of the Church in the Old Testament, and the new state of the Church in the New Testament; Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, (saith he) and answereth (or standeth in the same rank, as the word signifieth) to Hierusalem that now is, v. 25. Marke that I pray you, hee saith, not to Hierusalem in her old estate, in the dayes of the godly Kings, and holy Priests, and Prophets, and people (the Saints of the Lord who looked to bee saved by the grace of Christ, as well as we, Acts 15.11.) but to Hierusalem that now is, under the corrupt and degenerate Priests and Rulers, Scribes, Pharisees, and Sadduces, who renounced Christ, and the righteousnesse of faith in him, and seek to establish their owne righteousnesse which is by the law. And though some of them received Christ, (as did the false Teachers in the Churches of Galatia) and did also acknowledge their freedome from the sacrifices and burnt offerings, and from many other Leviticall Ceremonies of the Law, yet so long as they looked to be justified by the works of the moral law, and retained circumcision as still necessary by the law, they still pertained to Hierusalem that now is (as the Apostle calleth it) and all of them were children of the bond-woman, that is, of the ⟨p. 156⟩Covenant of the Law given on Mount Sinai. It is therefore a grosse error, and withall a notorious injury to the godly Saints that lived in the dayes of the Old Testament, to account them the children of Hagar, and to make it a part of their bondage, that their Infants were received into the fellowship of the Church with themselves. No, no, whilst themselves believed in the promised seed for righteousnesse and salvation, and their children were circumcised into the grace of the Covenant (the righteousnesse of faith) they and their seed were accounted the children of the Covenant of grace, (the free-woman) till any of them rejected that grace, as Ishmael and Esau did.
