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A47391	The ax laid to the root, or, One blow more at the foundation of infant baptism, and church-membership. Part I containing an exposition of that metaphorical text of Holy Scripture, Mat. 3. 10. : being the substance of two sermons lately preached, with some additions, wherein is shewed that God made a two-fold covenant with Abraham, and that circumcision appertained not to the covenant of grace, but to the legal and external covenant God made with Abraham's natural seed, as such : together with an answer to Mr. John Flavel's last grand arguments in his Vindiciarum Vindex, in his last reply to Mr. Philip Cary, also to Mr. Rothwell's Pædo-baptisms vindicatur, as to what seems most material / by Benjamin Keach ...	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.; Rothwell, Edward, d. 1731. Paedobaptismus vindicatus.	1693 (1693)	Wing K47; ESTC R39052	37,123	40

the second but finding fault with them he saith Behold the days come saith the Lord when I will make a new Covenant with the house of Israel and the House of Judah Heb. 8. 7 8. It was not faulty in it self but Holy Just and Good it requiring perfect Righteousness of him that would be Justified and therefore could not give Life the Creature being weak and unable to perform the Requirements of it and therefore Paul saith What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own Son in likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh Rom. 8. 3. It discovers Sin and condemns for Sin but could not justifie the Sinner in God's sight from Sin He that kept it not perfectly yea continued not in doing all Things written therein was cursed by it He that was Circumcised was bound to keep the whole Law that Rite obliged them it seems to perform perfect Obedience and yet some affirm it was a Precept of the Gospel Covenant but more of this by and by But say some Was not Circumsion a Priviledge Did it not Profit them The Apostle answers this Question For Circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the Law but if thou be a breaker of the Law thy Circumcision is made Uncircumcision See how the Apostle brings in Circumcision vers 23. Thou that makest thy boast of the Law through breaking the Law dishonourest thou God He it is evident shews That Circumcision appertained to the Law to the Old Covenant or Covenant of Works for Circumcision profiteth if thou keep the Law c. No Profit no Advantage by Circumcision unless the Circumcised keep the Law That is saith the late Annotations perfectly to which Circumcision obligeth Gal 5. 5. Now this being so the First Covenant being weak and faulty i. e. through the insufficiency and weakness of the Creature he being not able to answer its just Demands God in his infinite Mercy sent his own Son in our Nature and Stead to fulfill the Righteousness thereof he sought and found out the Second Covenant and the First is gone which brings me to the Third Proof of the Point 3. Heb. 10. 9. He took away the first that might establish the second There is a First and Second Covenant or an Old or a New the First must not be confounded with the Second nor the Second with the First because quite different in their Nature Design and End The First Covenant was made 't is true primarily with the First Adam and all Mankind in him that was the First Original or Beginning of it and then to him it did give Life whilst he stood by his Obedience to it but that Ministration of it of which the Apostle speaks and calls the First Covenant was that which God gave to Abraham's Seed according to the Flesh by Moses and to assure Abraham that unto his Seed should be given that Law or the Oracles of God c. he gave him the Covenant or Precept of Circumcision Rom. 3. 1 2. It served as a Pledge of the Law and obliged them to keep it therefore under this old Covenant or First Covenant 't is evident came in Circumcision and the Policy and National Church of the Jews and all other legal and external Rights and Privileges whatsoever both the National Church and Church-Membership but when the Root was struck at i. e. The First Covenant was took away all its Rights Laws Privileges and Appurtenances whatsoever went with it so that now we saith the Apostle know no man after the flesh 2. Cor. 5. That is we prefer or esteem no Man better then others upon the score of the First Covenant or Fleshly Privileges i. e. being of the Seed of Abraham or of the Church of Jews Old things being past away and all things being become New all Types Sacrifices Priest and Priesthood legal place of Worship legal time of Worship legal Ministers and legal maintenance of those Ministers the legal Church and legal Church-Membership were all taken away when the Covenant was took away and thus the Ax is laid to the root of the trees by the establishing the Gospel Dispensation the Anti-Type being come and the Heir come to full Age God deals with us now no more as with Children in Non-age but as with Men who are come to Knowledge and Understanding This I desire may be considered that whatsoever was a Type or Shadow did appertain to the Old Covenant and a great Error or Mistake 't is for any to say the Shadows of the Ceremonal Law were Gospel because they pointed to the Gospel which Mistake I shall farther clear up hereafter and proceed to the Fourth Proof Gal. 4. 30. Cast out the Bond-woman and her Son What is meant by the Bond-women Agar and Ishmael her Son you may see if you read vers 23 24 25. It is written that Abraham had two sons the one by a bond-maid the other by a free woman vers 22. But he who was born of the bond-women was born after the Flesh but he of the free woman was by promise By being born after the Flesh is opposed to him that was born by the Promise the meaning is Ishmael tho' he was Abraham's Seed or Son according to the Flesh yet he was not his Seed nor Son according to the Promise or Covenant of Grace God made with Abraham Which things are an Allegory for these are the two Covenants the one from Mount Sinai which gendereth to bondage ver 24. An Allegory is that by which another thing or things are meant or it hath a mystical Signification more is to be understood then is expressed litterally i. e. Agar held forth the first Covenant God made with Abraham's fleshly Seed and Ishmael the Children of the first Covenant Sarah signified the Gospel or the New Covenant and Isaac the Children of the New Covenant Nevertheless what saith the Scripture Cast out the Bond-woman and her son for the son of the Bond-woman shall not be Heir with the son of the free woman ver 30. The Drift and Scope of the Spirit of God in ●his place is as I conceive First To shew that there were two Covenan● made with Abraham which no doubt he himself who is called the Friend of God well understood one with his natural Seed as such the other with his spiritual Seed as such Secondly That the casting out of the Bond-woman shews the Abrogation of the first Covenant and all the external foederal and fleshly Rights and Privileges thereof and the casting out of the Seed of the Bond-woman shews the utter rooting out and rejection of the external and political Church-State of the Jews Thirdly That none of the fleshly Seed as such should be Heirs and Partakers with the true spiritual Seed of Abraham under the Gospel or have a Being in Abraham's true spiritual House or Gospel Church These Things being so what reason there is for any to plead for Infants Church

Off-spring but to his fleshly Seed as such as well as they upon that Condition they kept the Covenant of Circumcision and conformed themselves to the Law God gave them which they were obliged to do by the Covenant of Circumcision as I shewed before Secondly I shall now shew you what those Promises were that respect the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham and his true spiritual Seed as such 1. I have made thee a Father of many Nations meaning Gentile Belie 〈…〉 2. In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Gen. 12. 3. Observe here what the Apostle speaks And the Scripture foreseeing that God would justifie the Heathen through faith preached the Gospel to Abraham saying In thee shall all nations of the earth be blessed Gal. 3. 8. Nay and 't is for ever to be noted That the Holy Apostle endeavours to do the very same thing in Gal. 3. 16. which I am now about viz. To prove That the Covenant of Grace was not made with Abraham's fleshly Seed as such read the Text Now to Abraham and to his seed was the promise made he saith not to seeds as of many meaning his fleshly Seed as such but to thy seed which is Christ. And then in vers 29. he concludes And if ye be Christ's then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the Promise You must not reckon from Abraham but from Christ He must be blind that can't discern from hence that there were Two Covenants made with Abraham Compare these Texts with that in Rom. 9. 6 7 8. Obj. But the Jews might object they not seeing nor understanding this Twofold Covenant if we are rejected of God and rooted out God is unfaithfull and his Promise made of none Effect to Abraham and 't is his seed 1. Answ. The Apostle Answers They are not all Israel which are of Israel vers 6. 2. Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all Children ver 7. That is though they be all the Seed of Abraham according to the Flesh yet they are not all his spiritual Seed according to that Covenant of Grace made with Abraham all the true spiritual Seed are the Children of God as Isaac was being begotten and brought forth as the product of Almighty Power as fruit of God's Free Promise I will come and Sarah shall have a Son see the Apostle's further answer That is they which are born after the Flesh these are not the Children of God but the Children of the Promise are counted for the Seed vers 8. Martin Luther confirms the same great Truth we contend for Paul therefore concludeth with this Sentence saith he that they that are of Faith are the Children of Abraham that corporal Birth or carnal Seed make not the Children of Abraham before God as if he would say there is none before God accounted as the Child of Abraham who is the Servant of God whom God hath chosen and made Righteous by Faith through carnal Generation but such Children must be given before God as he was a Father but he was a Father of Faith was justified and pleased God not because he could beget Children after the Flesh not because he had Circumcision under the Law but because he believed in God He therefore that will be a Child of the Believing Abraham must also himself believe or else he is not a Child of the Elect the believing and the justified Abraham not the begetting Abraham which is nothing else but a Man conceived and born and wrap'd in Sin without the Forgiveness of Sins without Faith without the Holy Ghost as another Man is and therefore Condemned Such also are the Children carnally begotten of him having nothing in them like unto their Father but Flesh and Blood Sin and Death therefore these are also Damned this glorious boasting then we are the Seed of Abraham is to no purpose Thus far Luther on Gal. 3. p. 115. Thus Mr. Perkins speaks also The Seed of Abraham saith he is the Seed not of the Flesh but of the Promise and this Seed is first Christ and then all that believe in Christ for these are given to Abraham by Promise and Election of God moreover the Seed is not many as Paul observeth but one It is Objected That the Word Seed is a Name Co-elective and signifies the whole Posterity of Abraham Answ. It doth sometimes saith he but not always for Eve saith of Seth God hath given me another Seed Again he saith this one particular Seed of Abraham is Christ Jesus here the Name Christ first and principally the Mediator and then Secondly all Jews and Gentiles believing that are fit and grafted into Christ by Faith St. Paul saith The Children of the Flesh those are not the Children of God but the Children of the Promise are the Seed of Abraham Thus Mr. Perkins 2. Now nothing is more evident then that by the Promise is meant the Covenant of Grace the Children of the Promise made with Abraham are Children of the New Covenant and so generally owned by all our True Protestant Writers and this Promise or Covenant we find was only made with Abraham's spiritual Seed as these Two famous Writers and many more positively affirm 3. Yet also it is plain there was a Covenant made with Abraham's natural Seed and that they were taken into an external national Church State and Covenant relation with God and had divers peculiar Immunities and Privileges granted to them as so considered all which fully evinces that there was a Two-fold Covenant made with Abraham Certainly none can suppose but that their Church State and Legal Rights were Covenant Blessings and that they begun in Abraham and that too by those Covenant Transactings God made him is so clear that nothing need to be said more unto it and I cannot but wonder that our eminent Writers should confound and jumble these Two Covenants together as indeed I find generally they do Obj. But some will still Object that tho' this which I have said be granted i. e. That there were Two Covenants made with Abraham yet say they Circumcision was a Gospel Covenant or did appertain to the Covenant of Grace Answ. I answer and positively affirm That the Covenant of Circumcision was part of that legal old and external Covenant which is done away And this in the next place I shall fully prove 1. Because the Law or Covenant of Circumcision was it appears made in the Design and End of it to separate the natural Seed of Abraham in their National Church standing from all other Nations of the World and to give them the Land of Canaan and to keep themselves Pure from mixing among the Pople from whom Christ according to the Flesh was to come And hence it was that they were not to mingle themselves with the Heathens nor suffer any to join themselves to them unless first Circumcised Will any say that the Covenant of Grace or Gospel Covenant in the Design of it