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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78133	A discourse tending to prove the baptisme in, or under the defection of Antichrist to be the ordinance of Jesus Christ. As also that the baptisme of infants or children is warrantable, and agreeable to the word of God. Where the perpetuity of the estate of Christs Church in the world, and the everlastingnesse of the covenant of Almighty God to Abraham are set forth as maine grounds, and sundry other particular things are controverted and discussed. By P.B.	Barbon, Praisegod, 1596?-1679.	1642 (1642)	Wing B750; Thomason E138_23; ESTC R7333	22,862	40

at the present and say something of the fore part where there is two things considerable as generall grounds in the minding whereof sundry particulars will fall in The first is the Covenant of Almighty God to Abraham and to his seed after him in their generations Gen. 17. 7. It is an everlasting Covenant as in the nature of it so in the extent being made to a thousand generations continuing Psal 105. 8 to the time of Grace being in force after the sufferings of our Lord as apeareth by that of the Apostle Yee are the Children of the Prophets and of the Covenant and againe the Covenant is made to you and to Acts 3. 25. 2. 39. your Children yea it did extend to the Gentiles they were a part of the seed unto whom this everlasting Covenant was made as we shall further shew hereafter This Covenant of Almighty God as it is everlasting and hath the same extent for ever as ever it had so it is a distinct thing from either of the Testaments old or new for let it be minded there is but two Testaments an old one by Moses a new Heb. 8. 6 7 8. one by our Lord Jesus Christ so the Scripture is cleare Hebrews 8. one confirmed by the blood of Goates c. and the other in or by the blood of the Sonne of God Now the Covenant to Abraham and his seed is neither of these two the old it is not nor any part of it it was made 430 yeares before and noe whit disanulled swallowed up or made voyd by the Testament of Moses as expressely the Apostle doth witnesse 3 Gala. 17. the new it cannot be in asmuch as it is as before is shewed 430. yeares older then the old and to make it a part of the new as some do is to subvert the order of God himselfe for so the new Testament by CHRIST the Sonne should be indeed the old and the old by Moses 430 yeares after should be the new alike mistake it is to make it a part of the old or the old it selfe as some doe and so to count it legall and carnall and the like when as indeed it is most gracious and hath nothing but free grace in it and in all the parts of it and indeed but for digression from the matter in hand I would say something further about this matter because I know some will count this a new thing but let them minde that though a Covenant and Testament have a common and generall acceptance in the Scripture phrase yet in strictnesse of speaking they are distinct and divers and not the same A Testament can be confirmed noe otherwise but by death or blood so the Apostle and so were He. 9. 6. both the Testaments old and new but a Covenant is otherwise ratified and a person may make divers Covenants but he can make but one Testament in asmuch as he can die but once Almighty GOD made one free gracious and everlasting Covenant with Abraham and his seed and two Testaments as we said before one by Moses which waxed old and one new by his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord and though this may seeme new let any in sobernesse shew the error that attends it Now to returne to our matter This Covenant with Abraham and his seed being a distinct thing from either of the testaments and being everlasting and not made voyd by either of the Testaments the seed of the faithfull must needs be interessed in it so long as it doth last and continue but as before it is everlasting and so in the extent of it so as the believing Gentiles and their seed are interessed in it and made Abrahams seed they according as the Apostle declares in the 3 Ephe. 6. are made fellow heires and of the same body and partakers of his promise or Covenant in Christ through the Gospell The promise or Covenant in the 17 Gen. 7. The Gentiles they be a part of the seed to whom the promise was made Rom. 4. 16. which was made sure and good when the partition wall was broken down and there was neither Jew nor Greeke c. but all one in Christ Abraham being made according to the Gal. 3. 28. promise of God a Father not of one only but of many Nations that so in him and in his seed all the Nations of the Earth might be blessed he being made a Father Rom. 4. to them all not only to the Circumcision but to the uncircumcision according to the extent of the promise and everlasting Covenant of Almighty God unto him in the fulfilling whereof the promise was made sure and good to all the seed Romans 4. 16. 17. Indeed the Jewes as branches of the Stock of Abraham were broken off yet not all and the Gentiles grafted thereon Rom. 11. 17. which was according to that foretold by Christ the Kingdome should be taken from them and given to a people that would bring forth the fruite thereof namely the Gentiles Matt. 21. 43. And so those other sheepe brought in that were not of that Fold Iohn 10. that there might b● one Shepherd and one Sheepe-fold and not two the promise it being to seed and not to seeds that is to Iewes and Gentiles united together in one in Christ Gala. 3. 16. from all which and much more that might be said I take it to be most evident That the Covenant to Abraham was everlasting and to continue for ever that it did extend it selfe to the Gentiles as it did to the Iewes to the Natiōs of the Gentiles that beleeve as to the Nation of the Jewes to the seed of these and their posteritie now as to them and their posteritie of old That they to wit Children of the faithfull are of the Church of God and within the Covenant to Abraham and so by just consequence have a right to such Ordinances as are the seale of that Covenant as of old namely to be Circumcised with Circumcision made without hands and to be buried with Christ by Baptisme so Colo. 2. 11. as it must needs be a great wrong and violence to the Covenant of Almighty God and injury to Abraham the Father of the Faithfull to exclude such as God hath not only necessarily included but exprest in that his everlasting Covenant namely the Lineall seed of the Faithfull to forbid such to come to Christ as sometime some Disciples did finding fault Ma. 19. 13 14. with them that bring them as did those whom Christ blamed must needs be a changing the everlasting Covenant and a bringing in a new Gospell never learned of Iesus Christ Minding that former to be very cleare that the Covenant is everlasting the same of the same extent the lineall seed of the faithfull within it I now proceed to the consideration of the second thing which is That the estate of Christs Church hath bin and is stable and firm abiding to perpetuity some change in form and administration