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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56583	The doctrine of baptism and the disinction of the covenants, or, A plain treatise wherein the four essentials of baptism .... are diligently handled as also the business of the two covenants, wherein is proved that the covenant of life is not made to the seed of believers as coming out of their loins, and therefore that the baptism of infants is drawn from thence by a false consequence / by Thomas Patient.	Patient, Thomas, d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing P718; ESTC R26182	105,019	204

undertaken to perform and to work in the Creature as further appears in Ezekiel 16. latter end For thus saith the Lord God I will even deal with thee as thou hast done which hast dispised the oath in breaking the Covenant Notwithstanding I will remember my covenant with thee in the day of thy youth and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant and as he saith afterward not by thy covenant but by my covenant so that which he calls thy covenant was that which they broke and therein dispised the Oath as he saith plainly holding forth that it was a covenant of works answerable to that in Nehemiah 10.29 They clave to their Brethren the Nobles and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in Gods Law which was given by Moses the servant of God In which case you may discern here was two covenants the one that God calls his covenant and another that was their covenant a covenant of works which they broke And likewise you have further the covenant of eternal life opened in Ezekiel 36.25 26 27. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and you shall be clean from all your filthiness and from your Idols will I cleanse you A new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away the Stony heart out of your flesh and will give you a heart of flesh and I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and you shall keep my Judgements and do them Where you have as I said before this New covenant wholly lying on Gods part that he would first cleanse them from all their Idols and iniquities that he undertakes to give a new heart to take away the heart of Stone and to give them hearts of flesh And that he will give the soul his own Spirit and thereby came these to walk in his ways whom he calls to the obedience of his truth If they sin he binds himself to pardon their sins and to remember their sins and transgressions no more so that it is impossible that this covenant should be broke or that a soul shall ever miscarry that is once in this covenant as in respect of his everlasting estate And to this purpose David very eminently speaks in 2 Sam. 23. and 5. verse Although my house he not so with God yet he hath made with me an Everlasting Covenant ordered in all things and sure for this is all my salvation and all my desire although he make it not to grow Where you have David setting out the Covenant of Grace and the mercies in it to be in all points perfect and sure And to this purpose the Prophet in the 55. of Isaiah and the third verse inviting souls and perswading them to come to Christ saith Incline your ear and come unto me Hear and and your souls shall live and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you even the sure mercies of David that is he will give a Soul those New Covenant mercies which are most sure no way depending upon any condition to be performed in the Creature but wholly upon the Lord as appears in Psalm 89.28 to the 37. ver My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my Covenant shall stand fast with him his seed also will I make to endure for ever and his throne as the days of Heaven If his children forsake my Law and walk not in my Judgements If they break my Statutes and keep not my Commandments then will I visit their transgressions with the Rod and their iniquities with Stripes Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor suffer my faithfulness to fail My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing which is gone out of my lips Once have I sworn by my Holiness that I will not ly unto David His seed shall endure for ever His Throne as the ●un before me It shall be established for ever as the Moon and as a faithful Witness in Heaven Selah Now in these words you have the Covenant of eternal life made with Christ and his spiritual seed which David and his seed were types of which Covenant is a sure Covenant to all those to whom it is once made and to this doth the Author to the Hebrews allude when he saith in chap. 6.17 18. Wherein God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his Counsel confirmed by an oath That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to ly we might have strong consolation who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us Now in this Covenant before spoken to you have both the promise and oath here spoken of and here in this Covenant must needs be discovered the immutability of his Counsel because this is as David saith a covenant that is in all points perfect and sure and James in his Epistle alluding to these New covenant blessings or gifts saith Every good and perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variableness nor shadow of turning and that he doth here speak of the New covenant gifts doth appear in the next words he saith Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his Creatures Now consider well that in this covenant there is nothing that he requires but he ingageth himself to enable us to accomplish If he command to pray he promiseth to give his Spirit to help our infirmities If he command to walk in all his waies as you have heard he promiseth that he will put his Spirit in them to cause them to walk in his waies But some may object and say That we find the Gospel is held out upon Condition of Faith and Repentance Answer It is true Why though the Covenant of Grace be absolute yet the promises are held forth under a condition the promise of salvation and remission of Sin is held out with a condition to the world because it is Gods free mercy to work that condition in the hearts of his Elect by means of preaching and tendering of the Gospel and in them only But we are not to think that this grace of Faith and Repentance are any Qualifications that persons are to attain by their own abilities unto which the Gospel is tendred But in the new covenant the Lord undertakes to work the condition and to give the salvation tendred upon that condition also for saith he I will be unto you a God and you shall be unto me a people and in particular he saith He will put his Law in their hearts and in their minds will he write them and he will teach them to know him Now doubtless the Law of Faith and Repentance are here included according to those Scriptures Ephes 2.8 For by grace are you saved through Faith and

Faith offered a more acceptable or excellent Sacrifice than Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous So by Faith in the promised seed he came to be righteous and accepted of God as you have heard in Ephes 1.3 God hath blest us with all spiritual and heavenly blessings in Heavenly things in Christ Jesus Therefore no heavenly or spiritual blessing can belong to any out of Christ for as in Adam all dy so in Christ shall all be made alive There is none made alive but those that are in Christ for the wicked mens resurrection is not said to be to life but to damnation 1 Cor. 15. ●1 with John 5.28 29. And therefore in thee shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed Gen. 18.18 must imply thus much that out of Christ the true seed all the Nations should be accursed Gen. 12.3 with 22.18 Gal. 3.8 I must confess it is a sad thing that at such a time of the world as this where the means of grace and knowledge of the Gospel hath been so plentifully held forth that we must be forced to bestow such pains to prove that men cannot be in a State of salvation and acceptation before God in a covenant of grace without union in Christ by Faith But howsoever considering that the Apostle saith There is no other name under heaven by which we can be saved but by the name of Jesus and a particular faith in him Acts 4.12 and therefore Peter saith in John 6.69 Whether shall we go Thou hast the words of eternal life he is the way the truth and the life John 14.6 There is none can come into the Fathers love and mercy nor into the covenant of life or any spiritual privilege but by him he is the narrow way that leads to life and few there be that find it as Matth. 7.14 therefore saith the Apostle He that hath Christ hath life but he that hath not Christ hath not life but all the carnal unbelieving children from the foundation of the world unto this day have not Christ therefore not life that is to say nor the covenant of life nor the justification of life which every man must needs have that is in that covenant of life We find that all the Patriarchs and holy men of God by faith and patience inherited the promises and not by generation Heb. 6.12 and 11.12 therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead so many as the Stars in the sky for multitude and as the Sand which is by the Sea shore innumerable these all dyed in Faith This text speaks of that spiritual and believing seed of Abraham which he considered as believing and faithfull Abraham was the Father of according to Gen. 15.5 6. so shall thy seed be Secondly It further appears that the covenant of eternal life was never made with any but such as believe because all unbelievers both of Jews and Gentiles are charged under sin Romans 3.9 and have the wrath of God abiding on them John 3. last Yea though of the seed of Israel and children of that covenant of Circumcision to them Christ saith Except ye believe that I am he you shall dy in your sins John 8.24 And the Gospel tells the national Church of the Jews John 3.18 That those of them that beleeved not were condemned already because they believed not in the only begotten Son of God Which clearly proves that none of them were in a covenant of life by Generation for if they had then the want of conversion would not have damned them nor left them in a state of damnation Further doth not Christ himself call and account the unbelieving Jews the world when he saith to his disciples If you were of the world the world would love his own but because you are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you And this world that Christ chuseth his disciples out of and that hated his disciples as they had formerly hated him are but the Nation of the Jews that were in that covenant of Circumcision which plainly proves that all unbelievers in that nation were the world and therefore not in a covenant of Grace And again it must needs be so because the Apostle saith in Romans 4.16 therefore is it of Faith that it might be by Grace to the end that the promise might be sure to all the seed Observe from the Text if the promise or covenant or any spiritual privilege should be intailed upon the flesh or conveyed any way then by Faith it could not be by Grace And again Faith is the first differencing Grace to difference Gods peopl from all other Acts 15.9 and put no difference between us and them purifying their hearts by faith therefore it is impossible the covenant of grace can be made to any other but such as have faith And again I find none counted the Spiritual seed of Abraham unto whom the covenant of life belongs but them that are in Christ by faith as Gallat 3.28 29. There is neither Jew nor Gentile there is neither Bond nor Free neither Male nor Female for you are all one in Christ Jesus and if you be in Christ then are you Abrahams seed and heirs according to the promise and so Rom. 4.14 If they which were of the Law be heirs Faith is made void and the promise made of none effect meaning thereby the Covenant of Circumcision as appears in ver 10. 11. and so in Romans 9.7 8. Not because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children but in Isaac shall thy seed be called that is they which are the children of the flesh they are not the children of God but the children of the promise are counted for the seed Where you see that the Apostle doth deny that seed of Abraham that were only his children according to the flesh to be the spiritual seed but such as are born of promise or begotten by promise they are accounted for the seed chosen in him and united to him by Faith These were pointed and figured out by the National and Temporal seed that came out of the Loins of Isaac those Souls there born in the house and bought with money were in the outward covenant and privileges but these regeneate and born again by promise are the Heavenly seed So the heavenly generation are such only born from above and this is that the Psalmist speaks of in Psalm 22.30 A seed shall serve him and it shall be accounted to him for a generation For the Temporal Israel and the typical Election of them into the temporal covenant did point out this Spiritual Election in a Spiritual Covenant confirmed of God in Christ Jesus Further it appears that none but such as believe are in a covenant of Grace because without faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11 6. therefore Abel by faith had his person and his offering accepted Gen. 4.4 but