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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67315	Baptism anatomized being propounded in five queries, viz. I. What water-baptism is? II. What is the end for which it was instituted? III. What giveth right to it? IV. Who are the true administrators of it? V. Whether it be lawful for a man to baptize himself? Wherein the right that the infants of believers have to water-baptism is vindicated: the duty of believing parents in that matter, asserted: and that by the contrary tenet and practise, they ought themselves to be excluded from the Lords-Supper, is plainly and fully proved. And wherein also is proved, that the covenant which God made with Abraham, Gen. 17. and with Israel Exod. ch. 19. and Deut. 29. are the Covenant of Grace in Christ, and not part of the covenant of works made with Adam before his fall. By Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1691 (1691)	Wing W474; ESTC R218344	98,232	196

Benefit Spiritual could not be if Circumcision had been but a Seal or Sign to the Covenant of Works for then Redemption had not been by Free Grace but by Works but here we see Circumcision was a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith and Holiness both which are confirmed to all Believers and their Infants by Christ being Circumcised which sheweth that the Covenant sealed to the Faithful and their Seed of old was the Covenant of Grace in Christ for the Law John 1. 17. was given by Moses to make manifest Sin and Sinners but the Grace of Remission of Sin was by Christ in the Covenant that God will pass by for Christs sake the Sins of his People and be their God and they shall be his People is the Everlasting Covenant of the Gospel to Abraham and to his Seed in their Generations as now to the Believers and their Seed Gen. 17. 1. Gal. 4. 28. Again another Shift Mr. Cary useth to prove that Covenant to be no part of the Gospel-Covenant because Mr. Cary saith in Page 106. of his Solemn Call The Covenant of Grace hath no Conditions of Obedience required Answ Then there was never yet any Gospel-Covenant given to Mankind for is not the Work of Faith and Labour of Love Obedience commanded that all Christians shall do now as of old as these Scriptures shew 1 Thess 1. 4. James chap. 2. and doth not Christ say to his Ye are my Friends if ye do whatsoever I command you John 15. And again If a man love me he will keep my words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our aboad with him John 14. 23. And again Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the Gates into the City Rev. 22. 14. for saith Christ Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven Matt. 7. 21. This Obedience is not to merit but to manifest our Love by our Obedience if otherwise for any to obey the Commands of God either of old or now seeking thereby Justification in the sight of God by the Work done makes either the Law or Gospel to themselves a Covenant of Works And this is clear by the Lords driving Man out of the Garden after he was restored by Faith in Christ in the Promise from Death to Life The Lord placed at the East of the Garden of Eden Cherubins and a Flaming Sword which turned every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life that Man should no more have Hope to live for ever by his own Act for our Life is hid with Christ in God for his Obedience by keeping the Law for us but our Obedience is only that by it we know we love the Children of God when we love God and keep his Commandments 1 John 5. 2. For if there be no Conditions of Obedience in the Gospel Covenant to this end then there must be no Ordinances kept and performed why then do the Anabaptists plead for the Act of Profession of Faith or why do they Baptize as they call Dipping or break Bread cast out Offenders or lay a part to the Maintenance of the Poor or Teachers or any other Duty each is a Work of Obedience they suppose to the Command of Christ as likewise to suffer for his Name sake relieve those that are Imprisoned for Christs sake for the Saints are to do all works of Mercy and all works of Love or else it is their Sin as James and John teacheth us what are the works of Faith and Love James 2. 14 to 26. 1 John 2. 17 18. as aforesaid And by This we know that we love the Children of God when we love God and keep his Commandments 1 John 5. 2. Yet in all this work of Faith there is nothing exspected of Merit by the Children of God by the work done as by Matt. 25. 34 to 40. appeareth Then shall the King say unto them on the right hand Come ye blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World for I was an hungred and ye gave me meat I was thirsty and ye gave me drink I was a stranger and ye took me in naked and ye cloathed me I was sick and ye visited me I was in prison and ye came unto me Then shall the Righteous answer him saying Lord when saw we thee an hungred and fed thee or thirsty and gave thee drink or when saw we thee a stanger and took thee in or naked and cloathed thee or when saw we thee sick or in prison and came unto thee And the King shall answer and say unto them Verily I say unto you in as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my Brethren ye have done it unto me Thus although the work of Faith to Brethren must not be neglected no more than any other Duty in Gods Service yet the Saints account that no work of Merit as by their answer to Christ is manifest yet saith the Apostle God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love which ye have shewed towards his name in that ye have ministred to the Saints and do minister These things truly weighed we may see how grosly Mr. Cary hath sought by many Devises to prove the Everlasting Covenant which God made with the Faithful and their Seed Gen. 17. 7. to be no Covenant of the Gospel to the great dishonour of God and grief of all that fear God Next as concerning Exod. 19. 5 6. That it is no part of the Covenant of works as Mr. Cary would have it the contrary is proved by the ver● words it self in the Covenant the Apostle Peter being the Interpreter for had that been a part of the Covenant of works the Apostle Peter could not as he hath applied the Grace of God contained therein to the Gospel-Church unless Mr. Cary can prove that by the Covenant of works the Children of Israel were made a Kingdom of Priests a holy Nation a peculiar Treasure to the Lord as Peter applieth it to the Gospel-Church but if he hath no other reason to prove it a part of the Covenant of works than because Obedience is required he is before answered But it will be a hard matter for him to prove that Mankind since the Fall was by the Covenant of works made unto God a Kingdom of Priests or as Peter hath it a Royal or Kingly Priesthood the contrary is evident that the People of God are made not by a Covenant of works a Kingdom of Priests but of Grace as the Song of the Redeemed confirmeth Rev. 5. 9 10. And they sung a new Song saying Thou art worthy to take the Book and to open the Seals thereof for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every