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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

that not of your selves It is the gift of God Where he holds forth that though Faith be an Instrumental means of our salvation yet it is Gods free gift wrought in us Faith the gift of God therfore surely a covenant gift Paul upon this ground in Phil. 1.28 saith It is not only given us to believe but to suffer for his names sake where to believe it is given of God and so in Acts 18.27 speaking of Apollo saith that when he came he helped them much who had believed through grace as in Hebr. 12.2 where Jesus is said to be as well the Author as the finisher of our faith All which passages do shew that Faith is as well given in the new covenant as the Salvation tendred upon that condition Repentance the gift of God And so is also repentance a New covenant gift as well as remission of sins tendred upon that condition as you find in Acts 5.31 Him hath God exalted with his own right hand to be a Prince and Saviour to give Repentance to Israel and Remission of sins and in Acts 11.18 When they heard those things they held their peace and glorifyed God saying then hath God also to the Gentiles granted Repentance unto life Where observe to Gods Israel both of Jews and Gentiles God doth grant and freely give Repentance as well as salvation and remission of sins promised upon the condition of Repentance as likewise appears in the 2 Tim. 2.25 where the Ministers of God are commanded in meekness to instruct those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will at any time give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth which doth plainly prove that though Repentance and Faith be the condition that the Gospel is tendred on yet you see the Lord doth in the New covenant give faith and repentance as well as Remission of sins and eternal life And further I shall make it appear The Covenant of Grace obscurely delivered to our first parents That this covenant of grace to eternal life was first more obscurely and darkly revealed to our first parents God directing his speech to the Devil in Gen. 3.16 for the greater terror of the Devil and the greater comfort of his Elect God saith I will put enmity between thy seed and the seed of the woman it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel This speech contains in substance the covenant of grace Christ the true spiritual seed being here promised who in Scripture is held forth to be the very substance and marrow of the New covenant therefore the Lord saith in Isaiah 4● 6 speaking of Christ I will give thee a Covenant of the people a light to the Gentiles where the very gift of Christ is called a covenant because where he is promised all heavenly and spiritual blessings in him are there given all the promises being in Christ Yea and in him Amen 2 Corin. 1.20 And all spiritual and heavenly blessings are in him Ephes 1.3 He saith he will put enmity between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the woman which must needs have thus much in it That God would put or infuse in the seed of the woman his created gifts of holyness and purity and that precious love of God whereupon it must needs be that this new nature would be hated by the Devil as being opposite to him and also must needs hate the Devil with his evil nature as the Psalmist saith Ye that love God hate evil Christ tells us in Mat. 10.34 Think not that I come to send peace on earth I came not to send peace but a sword for I am come to set a man at variance against his Father and the Daughter against her Mother and the Daughter-in-law against the Mother-in-law and a mans foes shall be they of his own house-hold And Luke saith five in one house shall be divided three against two and two against three chap. 12.52 And what should occasion this division but that new nature which the Lord infuseth into his own seed or children which cannot comply with the seed of the Serpent So Peter saith they spake evil of us because we run not with them to the same excess of Riot 1 Pet. 4.4 So that I understand that here in this third of Genesis is the whole New covenant included The New Covenant not intailed upon any fleshly line This new covenant was never intailed upon any fleshly line or generation as the covenant of circumcision was but was still confirmed of God in Christ and to such souls only in Christ as you find in the promise to Abraham Gen. 12.3 In thee shall all the Nations of the earth be blessed Where you may observe That here is no respect of persons in the matter of these blessings to everlasting life But all Nations in Christ as well one Nation as another if in Christ have those blessings promised to them and thus much is imployed in that promise that all nations out of him are accursed But God here directs his speech to Abraham some may say it is true What 's meant by the blessedness promised to Abraham and his seed but with respect to Christ now who as touching the flesh was in his loins and this blessedness or justification of life which was confirmed in Abraham as a Father of all Nations is by the Apostle Paul called the Gospel Gal. 3.8 The Scripture foreseeing that God would justify the Heathen through Faith preached the Gospel to Abraham as it is written In thee shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed so this blessedness spoken of in Gen. 12.3 is expounded by Paul to be justification by faith in Christ and in Acts 3. this blessedness is there expounded to be a turning of every one of them from their iniquities Acts 3.26 And also this Gospel promise or covenant is spoken to in Gen. 15.5 where he bids Abraham look up to the Heavens and if he could number the Stars of Heaven and the Sands upon the Sea-shore so shall thy seed be and Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness This promise is quoted by the Apostle Paul as the Gospel covenant in Rom. 4.3 in opposition to the covenant of Circumcision intailed upon the flesh or fleshly line of Abraham For Circumcision was a Covenant in the flesh as the Apostle calls it which he also expounds in the 1. and 2. v. to be a Covenant of works but more of that hereafter only that which I would observe at present is that the Apostle confirms that Gospel promise in Genesis 12. and verse 3. and Genesis 15. and ver 5. to be the new covenant wherein was given through faith the Justification of Life excluding in this point the covenant of Circumcision called Works Rom. 4.1 2. and both these covenants are made with Abraham in Gen. 17. there you find the new covenant made with him to verse the 6. and from the 7.

Papists hold that the Ordinance of baptism conveith grace by the very work done which is so generally confuted by all Protestant Authors that it is not worth the speaking of p. 25. The Covenant of life not made to the seed of believers as coming out of their loins and therefore the baptism of infants drawn thence by a false consequence ib. Two Covenants the one of Works the other of Grace or the one Old the other the New p. 29. Why though the Covenant of Grace be absolute yet the promises are held forth under a condition p. 35. Faith the gift of God p. 36. Repentance the gift of God ib. The Covenant of grace obscurely delivered to our first Parents p. 37. The New Covenant not entailed upon any fleshly line p. 38. What is meant by the blessedness promised to Abraham and to his seed page 39. Circumcision proved to be no covenant of eternal life but a typical and carnal Covenant p. 42. How the word Everlasting is taken in the Law ib. First argument to prove Circumcision a covenant of works pag. 44. Second argument to prove Circumcision a covenant of works p. 48. The sealing use of Circumcision proved to be peculiar unto Abraham p. 53. An Appendix to the second argument to prove circumcision a covenant of works p. 55. Third argument to prove circumcision a covenant of works p. 57. Fourth argument to prove circumcision a covenant of works p. 60. Fifth argument to prove circumcision a covenant of works p. 61. Sixth argument to prove circumcision a covenant of works p. 65. Seventh argument to prove circumcision a covenant of works p. 70. To say that the covenant of grace is entailed on the flesh overthroweth the main fundamental points of our religion p. 71. The third General Head p. 84. Somewhat offered to prove that God presently upon the Fall made an outward carnal covenant entailed upon the flesh ib. Why the covenant of circumcision made to Abraham and his seed and not to others p. 88. To defend a covenant of life entailed on the flesh is virtually to deny that Christ is come in the flesh p. 93. None have right to the Covenant of grace but such a● are united to Christ by faith p. 94. Answers to such Scriptures as are alleged to prove the Baptism of Infants p. 101. An answer to that text Acts 2.39 p. 101. An answer to that text 1 Cor. 7.14 p. 105. An answer to that text Rom. 11.16 17. p. 110. An answer to that text 1 Cor. 10.1 2 3. p. 119. Faith made not Israelites capable of performing the Ceremonies of the Law p. 130. An answer to that Text Mat. 19.13 p. 132. An Exposition of that Text Gal. 4.21 p. 140. Why the Ordinance of Baptism is administred but once the Ordinance of the Lords Supper often p. 168. What things are essential to a particular visible Church p. 169. Vnbaptized persons not to be admitted into Church fellowship p. 172. The Commands of Christ must not be disputed p. 177. THE Doctrine of Baptism AND THE Distinction of the COVENANTS OR A Plain Christian Treatise explaining the Doctrine of Baptism and the two Covenants made with Abraham and his twofold Seed ACTS 2.37 38. Now when they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said unto Peter and the rest of the Apostles Men and Brethren what shall we do Then Peter said unto them Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the Remission of Sins and you shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost THese words of my Text have a special dependence upon the words foregoing in the Chapter The occasion of the words in the Text laid open for in the beginning of the Chapter you shall find that the Apostles and the Church were all with one accord in one place when the Day of Pentecost was fully come And according to the promise that Jesus Christ commanded them to wait for and that John had foretold of That one should come after him that should baptize with the Holy Ghost and with fire the which was at this time fulfilled for as the Author of the Acts here relates Suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a Rushing mighty wind and it filled all the House where they were sitting and there appeared unto them Cloven Tongues like as of fire and it sate upon each of them And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other Tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance Now this I understand to be the Baptism which John speaks of viz. that of the Holy Ghost and of fire which Christ should dispense as you may see was extraordinary and upon special occasion communicated to the Apostles they being now to give testimony of Christs Death Resurrection and Ascension The Lord in order to this work communicates to them the extraordinary Gifts of the holy Ghost and that in an extraordinary manner For here was outward signs which were cloven Tongues of fire resting on them and here was also the Holy Ghost with the extraordinary Effects of it as the inward things signified by the outward sign all which was I understand extraordinary for the fitting of these Apostles to that extraordinary work which God had to do by them First They were to be eye-witnesses of Christs Majestie in the flesh Secondly The Reasons why the Holy Ghost descended in an extraordinary manner upon the Apostles They were to be Master-Builders to lay a Foundation which all after Ministers to the end of the World were to build on they being Penmen of Scripture Thirdly They were now to overthrow all the Jewish Worship and all the Mosaical Administrations put to an end by Christs Death and to furnish them to this extraordinary work which Christ as an effect of his Session at the right hand of God pours down these gifts upon them as beforementioned this being noised abroad how they spake with other Tongues the multitude came together wondring at them and some thought they had been drunk but Peter standing up with the eleven began to lift up his voice to teach them And first The Contents of Peters Sermon to the Jews upon the descent of the Holy Ghost He proves by Scripture that these gifts of the Holy Ghost were formerly promised by the Lord and as an effect of his Ascension now given to them and he endeavours in this Sermon preached to prove First That Jesus was the Christ a man approved of God by Miracles and Signs that God did work by him amongst them Secondly He endeavours to prove by Scripture that he did suffer and dy according to the Counsel and Will of God Thirdly That he did rise again from the Dead which he from Scripture doth justifie And that in the fourth place God had exalted him by his right hand to be both Lord and Christ and he proves that by the visible gifts of the Holy Ghost which they did see and