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cause_n	woman_n	womb_n	young_a	82	3	6.1701	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80622	The grounds and ends of the baptisme of the children of the faithfull. Opened in a familiar discourse by way of a dialogue, or brotherly conference. / By the learned and faithfull minister of Christ, John Cotton, teacher of the Church of Boston in New-England.	Cotton, John, 1584-1652.; Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.	1646 (1646)	Wing C6436; Thomason E356_16; ESTC R201141	171,314	214

Kingdome under the whole heaven shall bee given to the people of the Saints of the most High A second thing which I would put you in minde of which also hath been mentioned above is that wee doe not stand upon Nationall Iewish priviledges but upon the Covenant of Abraham which was given with the Seale thereof to him and his seed before any of the Jewes and Israelites were borne when Abraham and his seed were confidered rather as a Domesticall Church then a as national And then the Covenant was given to him as walking before God in uprightnesse of heart Gen. 17.1.7 which cannot bee without faith and the signe of the Covenant was given him as a signe and seale of the righteousnesse of Faith Rom. 4.11 and both Covenant and seale were given to his infant seed for his faith sake Gen. 17.7 And in case his infant seede should grow up to riper yeares and then not take hold of the Covenant of Abraham but prophanely reject they were cast out of their Church Estate as was Ismael and Esau And so the seed of Abraham could never grow up to a Nationall Church unlesse when they grew up to yeares they should continue in a visible Profession of the Faith of Abraham or unlesse god should afterwards enlarge the wings of his Covenant to reach over the whole Nation as hee began to doe in the Testament of Iacob Gen. 49.26 and more fully and solemnely declared the same Exod. 19.3 to 8. and Deut. 29.10 to 13. But it is not the Covenant of Jacob to him and to all his Posterity during their lives that wee plead for But the Covenant and blessing of Abraham which the Apostle saith is co ue upon us Gentiles Gal. 3.14 which onely admitteth the faithfull and their infant seed not during their lives in case their lives should grow up to Apostasie or open scandall but during their infancy and so long after as they shall continue in a visible profession of the Covenant and faith and the religion of their fathers Otherwise if the children of the faithfull grow up to Apostasie or to any open scandall as Ismael and Esau did as they were then so such like now are to be cast out of the fellowship of the Covenant and of the seales thereof But you willingly take no notice here of the Covenant of Abraham to him and to his seed And because say you the Jews had a promise for the bringing forth the Messias the promised seed in whom all Nations should bee blessed therefore all of that Nation were admitted to the outward Priviledges as figures of him whom that Nation was to bring forth which made a fruitfull wombe accounted so great a blessing among the Jewes as not knowing who might bee so far honoured as to bring forth that blessed seed But Christ came of Abraham and of Isaae as well as of Judah the father of the Jews and yet that did not admit all the Nations which sprang of them to the outward Priviledges as you call them though very absurdly if you meane as you seeme to doe the Covenant and the seale thereof For the Covenant whereby wee and our seed have God for our God is not a meere outward Priviledge but a spirituall and heavenly Priviledge to such as know the worth of it Besides many Tribes of Israel were admitted they and their seed to the Priviledge of the Covenant and to the seale thereof of whom yet it was evident that Christ was not to spring of any of of them The Iewes who descended all of them of Iudah they were but one tribe of twelve And why should all the other eleven Tribes bee circumcised as well as the Jews in respect of their bringing forth their promised seed when yet old Jacob had limited the bringing forth of the Messi●h to the Tribe of Judah Gen. 49.10 Were all the children of the eleven Tribes figures of the Messiah as well as the children of the Jews Besides in Davids time there was a promise given to him that the Messiah should come out of his loynes 2 Sam. 7. Why then should any other families of the Jews injoy such a Priviledge that all their infants shuold bee circumcised with the Seale of the Covenant Doth any word of Scripture make all the Infants of all the Jews yea of all Israel figures of the Messiah And if no word of Scripture so doe shall any man forge such an imagination of his owne braine and be guiltlesse what though a fruitfull wombe was counted a great blessing among the Jews So it was also among the other Tribes who yet could not expect the Messiah to spring from them It was a cause just enough to account a fruitfull wombe a great blessing not onely because it was a blessing to the family but also because it was an inlargement of the Church In which respect the Elders and Peoples of Bethlehem blessed Ruth Chap. 4.11 and Boaz with her The Lord make this young Woman which commeth into thine house like Raechel and like Leah which two did build the house Israel How will you make it appeare That God honoured the Nationall birth among the Jews with such outward blessings and Priviledges that belongs not to the Gentiles at all You should have done well to have told us what those outward blessings and Priviledges were and to have cleared it that they belonged to the Jews and not to the Gentiles at all Otherwise it will not bee safe for you to take up doctrines of Religion upon trust of mans word The Gentiles say you are now to looke for our bringing forth of Christ according to the Spirit as the Jews did then according to the flesh and likewise their birth and seed and all things suitable to the same as John 3.3.5.6 Iohn 1.12 13. And therefore wee are said to know no man now no not Christ himselfe after the flesh 2 Cor. 5.16 And Circumcision was one Priviledge of the flesh Phil. 3.4 5. Answer It is not true that all the Jewes did looke to bring forth Christ according to the flesh For in Davids time they knew that Priviledge was peculiar to his family neither is it true that the Gentiles are now to look for the bringing forth of Christ according to the Spirit any more then the Jews were to looke then The Apostle Peter maketh us equall with the Jews and them with us in this Priviledge Wee looke saith hee to bee saved through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ even as they Act. 15.11 It behoved them as well as us to attaine a spirituall birth and to bee borne of an immortall seed suitable to the same as well as us for it was not to a Gentile but to Nicodemus a Jew that Christ spake unto Ioh. 3.3.5 6. Except a man be borne againe of water and the Holy Ghost he cannot see the Kingdom of God That which is borne of the flesh is flesh that which is borne of the Spirit is Spirit Where it doth not