An humble inquiry into the rules of the Word of God, concerning the qualifications…

ANSW. 2. Whatever was the Case with Respect to the Qualifications for the Sacraments of the Old Testament Dispensation, I humbly conceive 'tis nothing to the Purpose in the present Argument, nor needful to determine us with Respect to the Qualifications for the Sacraments of the Christian Dispensation, which is a Matter of such plain Fact in the New Testament. Far am I from thinking the Old Testament to be like an old Almanac out of Use; nay, I think it is evident from the New-Testament, that some Things which had their first Institution under the Old Testament, are continued under the New; for Instance, particularly, the Acceptance of the Infant-Seed of Believers as Children of the Covenant with their Parents; and probably some Things belonging to the Order and Discipline of Christian, Churches, had their first Beginning in the Jewish Synagogue. But yet all allow that the Old Testament Dispensation is out of Date, with it's Ordinances: And I think, in a Matter pertaining to the Constitution and Order of the New-Testament-Church, that is a Matter of Fact wherein the New-Testament it self is express, full and abundant, in such a Case to have Recourse to the Mosaic Dispensation for Rules or Presidents to determine our Judgment, is quite needless, and out of Reason. There is perhaps no Part of Divinity attended with so much Intricacy, and wherein orthodox Divines do so much differ, as the stating the precise Agreement and Difference between the two Dispensations of Moses and of Christ. And probably the Reason why God has left it so intricate, is, because our understanding the ancient ⟨p. 96⟩Dispensation and God's Design in it is not of so great Importance, nor does so nearly concern us. Since God uses great Plainness of Speech in the New-Testament, which is as it were the Charter and municipal Law of the Christian Church, what Need we run back to the ceremonial and typical Institutions of an antiquated Dispensation, wherein God's declared Design was, to deliver divine Things in comparative Obscurity, hid under a Veil, and involved in Clouds?

ANSW. 2. Whatever was the Case with Respect to the Qualifications for the Sacraments of the Old Testament Dispensation, I humbly conceive 'tis nothing to the Purpose in the present Argument, nor needful to determine us with Respect to the Qualifications for the Sacraments of the Christian Dispensation, which is a Matter of such plain Fact in the New Testament. Far am I from thinking the Old Testament to be like an old Almanack out of Use; nay, I think it is evident from the New-Testament, that some Things which had their first Institution under the OldTestament, are continued under the New; for Instance, particularly, the Acceptance of the Infant-Seed of Believers as Children of the Covenant with their Parents; and probably some Things belonging to the Order and Discipline of Christian, Churches, had their first Beginning in the Jewish Synagogue. But yet all allow that the Old Testament Dispensation is out of Date, with it's Ordinances: And I think, in a Matter pertaining to the Constitution and Order of the New-Testament-Church, that is a Matter of Fact wherein the New-Testament it self is express, full and abundant, in such a Case to have Recourse to the Mosaic Dispensation for Rules or Presidents to determine our Judgment, is quite needless, and out of Reason. There is perhaps no Part of Divinity attended with so much Intricacy, and wherein orthodox Divines do so much differ, as the stating the precise Agreement and Difference between the two Dispensations of Moses and of Christ. And probably the Reason why God has left it so intricate, is, because our understanding the ancient