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The covenant of grace opened
The covenant of grace opened: wherein these particulars are handled; viz. 1. What the covenant of grace is, 2. what the seals of the covenant are, 3. who are the parties and subjects fit to receive these seals. From all which particulars infants baptism is fully proved and vindicated. Being several sermons preached at Hartford in New-England. / By that reverend and faithful minister of the gospel, Mr Thomas Hooker.The covenant of grace opened: wherein these particulars are handled; viz. 1. What the covenant of grace is, 2. what the seales of the covenant are, 3. who are the parties and subjects fit to receive these seales. From all which particulars infants baptisme is fully proved and vindicated. Being severall sermons preached at Hartford in New-England. / By that reverend and faithfull minister of the gospel, Mr Thomas Hooker.
London: printed by G. Dawson, 1649
THE Covenant of Grace opened in several Sermons.THE Covenant of Grace opened in severall Sermons.
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.
4. If we grant him his interpretation it will be no help to his cause; if the first fruits and lump be the elect, the children are elect also; if they be vessels of glory, upon the same ground, children are elected as well as they, and let Christ be the head of those that be ingrafted, then children and infants are the branches of this head, and so to be judged in charity, and if they shall be saved, they are members, Ephes. 5.26. Children shall be saved by Christ, they he, his body; he hath gotten nothing here, but we have gained that children have federal holiness against all opposition.
4. If we grant him his interpretation it will be no help to his cause; if the first fruits and lump be the elect, the children are elect also; if they be vessels of glory, upon the same ground, children are elected as well as they, and let Christ be the head of those that be ingrafted, then children and infants are the branches of this head, and so to be judged in charity, and if they shall be saved, they are members, Ephes. 5.26. Children shall be saved by Christ, they he, his body; he hath gotten nothing here, but we have gained that children have federall holinesse against all opposition.
The 4th Proposition is, Although the ground be not the same, yet ⟨p. 56⟩there is as sure a ground to evidence to judicious charity, that children are in covenant as well as parents, if they be believers, the ground is •t good to the one as it is to the other, to a Rule of judicious charity it is alike to both.