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 second main pillar upon which your gloss on this Text, is held up, is, that the two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, type out the different subjects of these two states of Churches: Ishmael being a type of the estate in general of the Church of the old Testament, and Isaac being a type of the state of the Churches of the New Testament.

The second main pillar upon which your glosse on this Text, is held up, is, that the two sons, Ishmael and Isaac, type out the different subjects of these two states of Churches: Ishmael being a type of the estate in generall of the Church of the old Testament, and Isaac being a type of the state of the Churches of the New Testament.

But neither will this gloss stand with the Apostles words. For ⟨p. 157⟩the Apostle maketh these two sons to be the children engendered (or bred) of these two Mothers. Now children as they are engendered or bred of their Mothers, they are not properly the subjects of their Mothers (though they be subject to them) but their effects. The Mothers therefore being not the twofold state of the Churches of the Old and New Testament, but the two Covenants of the Law and of Grace, Ishmael the son of Hagar the bond-woman, is the type of all those Members in the Church, whether of the Old or New Testament, as who look for righteousness and salvation by the works of the Law, and do therefore lye under the bondage, and curse of the Law, such were those in Micah 6. who thought God would be pleased and appeased with thousands of Lambs and ten thousand Rivers of oil, v. 6, 7. Such also at that time was the whole body generally of the Priests and Rulers, and People of Jerusalem in the Apostles days, which he calleth the Jerusalem that now is. And such were all the false Apostles and false Teachers, and their Disciples in the Churches of Galatia, Philippi, and Coloss, who refused the righteousness of God by faith in Christ Jesus, and sought to establish their own righteousness by the works of the law; on the other side, Isaac being the son of Sarah the free-woman, and Sarah representing the Covenant of Grace, he is the type of all those members in the Church, whether before Christ in the Old Testament, or since Christ in the New, as are begotten and bred of the promise and Covenant of grace, whereby by God giveth himself to be a God to the believer and his seed: who therefore look for all their righteousness and salvation to themselves and their seed, not from the works of the Law, nor from all their outward privileges, but from the grace and righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Only thus much further I will not stick to grant you, That as the two Covenants are the two mothers that are represented by Hagar and Sarah; so those Churches that are begotten and bred of either of these Covenants, (and so are themselves the children of the one, or of the other of these Covenants) they may be said to be the mothers of those particular members, which by their Ministry are engendered and bred;