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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.
1. You conceive that Hagar and Sarah signify the several estate of the Churches of the Old and New Testament, Hagar the old state of the Church in the Old Testament: and Sar•• the state of the Church of the New Testament.
1. You conceive that Hagar and Sarah signifie the severall estate of the Churches of the Old and New Testament, Hagar the old state of the Church in the Old Testament: and Sar•• the state of the Church of the New Testament.
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