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A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…
A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated in the New English churches are from Scripture and reason modestly enquired into / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Sixteen lines of quotations]A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated in the New English churches are from Scripture and reason modestly enquired into / by Increase Mather, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Sixteen lines of quotations]
printed by Samuel Green, 1675
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Argument 5. That Assertion which runs cross to the Covenant of grace is not to be admitted; but so doth this▪ For in the Covenant God promiseth to be a God not only to the Parent, but also to the Child and that Everlastingly, Gen, 17. 13. Psal 48. Last. when as this Assertion brings in a new Covenant, wherein the Lord doth not promise to continue to be the Child's God, as he doth to be the Fathers God. We say of the Anabaptists, that sure their Tenet cannot be sound, because they make a Covenant which ⟨p. 60⟩God never made, even a Covenant which taketh in the Parent but leaveth out the Child; the like may we say of this Assertion, which teacheth that God doth Covenant to be the Parents God for ever, except he violate the Covenant by choosing another God, but that he covenants to be the Child's God, only twenty years or till he become Adult, and then though the Child never did choose any other but his Fathers God, yet his time is out, he is set at liberty from his Service to the true God, and what hath be to do with the Lord God of Israel, Joshua 22. 24: Is not this to make that Covenant temporary which the Lord hath called Everlasting, Gen. 17. 13, Isai. 24. 50 1 Chron. 17. 22. In a word, Abraham's Govenant is but one, embracing Father and Child with both Arms, when as this notion maketh two Covenants, (Specifically different the one from the other) of the Covenant of grace, one that is with the Parent, which lasts for ever, another with the Child which is of force, it may be twice or thrice seven years, and then the Lease is out. For my part I neither can, nor dare believe this to be true, especially considering that the Lord doth expressly promise in his gracious Covenant to be a God even from the womb to Grey hairs, Isai. 46. 3, 4.
Argument 5. That Assertion which runs cross to the Covenant of grace is not to be admitted; but so doth this▪ For in the Covenant God promiseth to be a God not only to the Parent, but also to the Child and that Everlastingly, Gen, 17. 13. Psal 48. Last. when as this Assertion brings in a new Covenant, wherein the Lord doth not promise to continue to be the Childs God, as he doth to be the Fathers God. We say of the Anabaptists, that sure their Tenent cannot be sound, because they make a Covenant which