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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87485	Nineteen arguments, proving circumcision no seal of the covenant of grace. Whereunto, is annexed; the unlawfulnesse of infants baptisme upon that ground. / Written by R.J.	R. J.; C. B.; Blackwood, Christopher.	1645 (1645)	Wing J31; Thomason E315_16; ESTC R200517	18,269	23

evident amongst us where all are dipped by vertue of that Covenant Gen. 17. because they are Abrahams seed which yet they cannot be except they be born christians Gal. 3.29 neither young nor old can be Abrahams seeds except they be Christs first If the Covenant of Grace and Remission of sins was never intailed upon any man and his seed Arg. 12 but in the whole nature and condition of it relating unto faith only in the partakers then Circumcision can be no seal of that Covenant of Grace But antecedent Assump if true that the Covenant of Grace was never intayled c. seeing it alwayes relateth unto faith only in all partakers Gen. 12.3 with Gal. 3.8 9. Heb. 4. Acts 27.17 18. Rom. 3.25 Rom. 4.22 23.24 Heb. 3.14 Now by these mens fantasie they were made partakers of Christ by Jewish generation and circumcision as their own Infants are supposed to be by birth and baptisme whereas the Scriptures witnesses no promise of Grace and Remission of sins but only to the personall beleivers If here any object Acts 10.43 Acts 2.39 I answer that only concerneth the promise of the spirit which was revealed by Joel cap. 2.28 and doth follow the receivall of the Gospell Ephes 1.13 Gal. 3.14 as shall be plainly and clearly proved to any opposite though it need no proofe being evident from Peters whole speech and the verse preceding the Text therefore the consequence is true also that Circumcision could not be a seale of the Covenant of Grace First that of Paul Object Rom. 4.11 where it is stiled a seal of the righteousnesse of Faith First Answ it was not given to strengthen the weaknesse but to honour the strength of Abrahams Faith And therefore doth the Apostle Rom. 4. beat them oft from the use of circumcision as being nothing but a fleshly badge bearing witnesse to the spirituall eminency of Abrahams faith he being thereby as it were marked out for an exemplary pattern to all beleevers as father or chiefe of them Those which are but any whit acquainted with the Greek tongue doe know 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth an exemplary note to make any man or thing illustrious and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used in that sence to enoble by some especial note to which purpose that may be pertinent Iohn 6.27 God the Father is said to seal him making him illustrious by all manner of testimonies Now ponder well that this sign was not given to him meerly because he was faithfull for then it should have been unto Noah long before or at the least to Lot now as well as to Abraham much lesse was it given in any relation to his weaknes seeing that he was so strong that he staggered not Rom 4.20 and therefore not as a seal to confirm but as a badge of honour for to credit as this coherence doth conclude but though it were a speciall favour marking out his faith as exemplary yet its nature and institution sheweth that it confirmeth nothing to him and his seed but the land of Canaan Gen. 13.15 with cap. 17.8 9 10. and Psalm 105.11 and Acts 7.5.8 where all may observe it a seal of a covenant concerning an outward blessing Genes 28.41 distinct from that Gospell-promise Genes 12.3 which is received by Faith onely Gallathians 1.8.9.14 Genesis 15.5 6. with Rom. 4.13.18 Gallathians 3.16.19 Now that Circumcision is no seal of the righteousnesse of Faith I will prove it byan unanswerable argument viz. if Circumcision bea seal of the righteousnesse of Faith in their sence then the Inheritance commeth as well by the Law as by the Promise the reason is because Circumcision is nothing and by consequence no seal at all except a man keep the Law Rom. 2.25 1 Cor. 7.19 But that the Inheritance should any way come by the Law as by the Promise is most contrary to Paul Romans 4.14 where hee maketh all concurrence of the Law inconsistent with Faith and the Promise so farre as it concerneth our eternall inheritance And therefore that sence is blasphemously contradictory to Pauls discourse and destructive to the pure doctrine of Iustification now whereas some have conceited that Circumcision did over and above its ordinary use seal to the Iewes in generall that Christ should descend of them or their seed in whom only Beleevers should be saved whether they were circumcised or nor It sealed no such matter at all so that if there had been no other Gospell-promise besides Answ Genesis 17. they must have sought salvation in the Law and by the Law onely Gallathians 5.3 1 Corinth 7 19. Acts 15.10 Rom. 2.25 sheweth the perfection of a Beleever buried by dipping into the death of Christ unto which by Circumcision they could not aspire unto The reason of Chamieras as is most unworthy the wit and judgment of so learned and voluminous a writer for quoth he that Covenant whereby God promiseth to be a God to them and their seed must needs be a covenant of grace and remission of sins because as he thinketh God cannot be so but in Christ only It is apparantly false Answ Psal 50.1.8.9 there being divers relations whereby God is stiled the God of people besides that of remission of sinnes through Christ Thus he is stiled the God of the spirit of all flesh Numb 16.22 And as he is stiled the Saviour of all men 1 Tim. 4.10 so why not the God of all men though not by remission of sins in Christ but meerely in relation ●o some other of his works or attributes especially by this typ●call relation wherein he so often calleth them his people when they were his enemies and hee giving out the bill of divorce against them Hos 4.6 with Mich. 6.3 4 5. And had not his outward covenant in some sence intitled them unto God they could have been no figure fit for ensample to the antitype even the true Israel of God under the new Testament Gal. 6.16 Pet 2.9 1 Cor. 10.6.11 with Jer. 13.11 where you may note also that those who would make circumcision a figure of dipping gaine nothing by it for be sprinkling of Babies for then it will follow that as none were to be circumcised but the seed of Abraham with Srangers Prosel●●es and Slaves b●nght with mony so none are to bee dipped but those who beleive the doctrine of the Gospell Mark 16.17 or else prosesse the same Faith And as the seed of Isaack and of Iacob only were called to inhe●●t in Canaan so those only who have beleived through grace Acts 18.27 as the Eunuch Acts 8.38 and not such as Simon Maguc Acts 8 13. who counterfeit the same confession shall inherit the heavenly Canaan I hope the godly wise will conceive that though the Covenant were the same and the Sacrament also but only for change of the Element as the Baby sp●inklers bear people in hand so authorizing the prophane abominable abuse of Zaedobiprisme by the command for circumcision yet