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A12284 A censure upon the dialogue of the Anabaptists intituled, A description of what God hath predestinated concerning man ... By Henry Ainsworth. Ainsworth, Henry, 1571-1622? 1623 (1623) STC 226; ESTC S100100 65,025 70

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not of Moses but of the fathers Iob. 7.22 Secondly the covenant which circumcision sealed was that the Lord would be a God to Abraham and his seed Gen. 17.7.10 this was the covenant of the Gospell Heb. 8.8 10 Rev. 2 1.3 Thirdly Circumcision was the seale of righteousnesse of faith Rom. 4 11 but the Law is not of faith Gal. 3.11.12 therefore circumcision was a seale of the Gospell promised a seale of the covenant of grace Wheras th●y say the new covenant is not made but with the one seed Gal. 3.16 it is true maketh against them for that one seed is there shewed to be Christ not Christ in his own person onely but Christ with his Church which make one mystical body 1 Cor. 12.12 Eph. 5.30.31.32 Now the infants of the Church are by the covenant of grace of the body of Christ even as by nature they are of the body and stock of Adam as before in the treaty of Originall sin we haue proved by Rom. 5 so that the new covenant is made with them also and therefore the seal of that covenant is due unto them now as it was in Abrahams daies N●xt this they goe about to proue That the covenant wherof circumcision was a signe Gen. 17 was not the same which we haue now in the Gospell because the Lord sayth it is not the same Jer. 31.31 Heb. 8.6 it is a new covenant that we haue under the Gospell Answ. It is no marvell though these men so often slander us vvhen they dare belye the Lord himselfe Neither doth the Prophet nor the Apostle in the places by them cited or any where say that the covenant vvhich Abraham had and vvhich vvas sealed to him by circumcision is not the same which we haue I haue before proved them to be one in substance by Gal. 3 and Rom. 4.11 The covenant spoken of by Ieremy was made vvhen God took them by the hand to bring them out of Aegypt Ier. 31.32 Heb. 8 vvheras the covenant vvith Abraham was many yeares before Gal. 3.17 Therefore the covenant made vvith Abraham by promise is the same that we now haue by performance and confirmation of that prom●se Luk. 1.54 55 72 73 Rom. 15.8 Againe they say though Abraham himselfe had the covenant of grace promised him by which promise he had salvation in the M●ssiah to come yet ha● he not the ordin●●●●s of the new covenant which wee haue and therefore none of his seed in the fl●sh could be partakers of that which he had not himselfe Answ. They grant enough to their own condemnation for if Abrahams covenant was of grace and salvation by Christ then vvas it not of the Law as before they pleaded for that causeth vvrath and damnation Rom. 4.15 Gal. 3.10.12 We plead not for the same external Ordinances or manner of outward ●ispensation but for the same substance of the covenant which was of faith not of works and so of the Gospell not of the Law as Paul teacheth us Rom. 4. Gal. 3. The Israelites Passeover of the Lamb and our Passeover Christ their feast of unleavened cakes and ours 1 Cor. 5.7.8 differ apparantly in the outward Ordinances So their bread of Manna from heaven ours of wheat from the earth their drink of vvater from the Rock ours of wine from the Grape in the supper of our Lord how greatly doe they differ in the outward things yet were they the same spirituall meate and drinke both to them and us even Christ as the Apostle teacheth 1 Cor. 10.3.4 So Circumcision and Baptism differ much in the outward rite and signe but not in the substance or thing signified Yet cease they not their idle contention but further say concerning us They speake untruely in saying that the covenant which this new is not like is that Law given upon mount Sina Exod. 19. not that in Gen. 17. Marke the words in Ier. 31 Heb. 8 Not like the covenant that I made with their fathers when I tooke them by the hand to bring them out of Aegypt which is mentioned in Exod. 3 not Exod. 19 then did God appeare to Moses and commanded him to take them by the hand and lead them out of Aegypt where the covenant is mentioned in ver 6 I am the God of thy fathers Abraham c. I am come to deliver them c. to bring them into a good land c. which promise was made unto their father Abraham Answ. The untruth and ignorance is in themselues that so reason For there was no covenant made in Exod. 3. Let the place be veiwed Though if there had then a covenant been made it were nothing to our purpose because Abraham was dead many yeares before and we reason of the covenant made vvith him and his seed whiles he lived Gen. 17. But in Exod. 19.5 c. treatie is of a covenant to be made in Exod 20 c. the Lawes are promulgated In Exod. 24 7 8 the covenant is made up and dedicated And that this was that first and old covenant which should be abolished as Ieremy foretold the Apostle doth plainly manifest For having shewed the promise hereof in Heb. 8.8 13 hee prosecuteth the same matter in Heb 9 shewing the differences between the first covenant and the second or the old and the new and how a covenant or testament must be confirmed by bloud and death vvhich for the new was by the death of Christ Heb. 9.15.16 and for the first it vvas with the death bloud of bullocks and goats vvherewith Moses sprinkled the people v. 18 19.20 And this was that action recorded in Exod 24 done at mount Sina Moreover obserue here these mens fraud Ieremy speaketh of a covenant made they tell us of a covenant or promise mentioned in Exod. 3 as if to make a covenant when they came out of Aegypt and to mention a covenant or promise made many yeares before with Abraham in Canaan were all one That which is alledged of the land of Canaan promised in Gen 17 8 is true as a type or figure but not as the maine thing there intended For Abraham himselfe had no inheritance in the land of Canaan no not so much as to set his foot on Act. 7.5 how then did circumcision seal that to Abraham vvhich God never performed to him Is not this to make Gods promise to him vaine The Apostl● is a better expositor who saith that circumcision sealed to him righteousnesse of faith which he had before Rom 4.11 and telleth us how by faith Abraham soiourned in the land of promise as in a strange Countrie and looked for a heavenly citie and countrie which he understood to be figured by that earthly land Heb. 11.9.10.16 And if ●h● poss●ssion of Canaan was that vvhich circumcision sealed then Abrahams servants yea and all his sonnes by Keturah and all pros●lytes of other families that were circumcised were deluded with a vaine promise seeing none of all these had ever inheritance