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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30628	An argument for infants baptisme deduced from the analogy of faith, and [of the] harmony of the [Scr]iptures : in which in a method wholly new, and upon grounds not commonly observed bo[th the] doctrine (of infants baptism) is fully asserted, and the objections against it are obviated / by Richard Burthogge.	Burthogge, Richard, 1638?-ca. 1700.	1684 (1684)	Wing B6148; ESTC R35796	83,110	210

demonstrate this it must be minded that as the Equity and Reason of the Command doth hold in Baptism as well as in Circumcision and for any other Sign and Token as well as for This and to the Seed as well as to Abraham God being as much a God to the One as to the Other So also that in the Form of the Words the Obligation imposed upon Abraham and his Seed is in the First place to keep the Sign and Token of the Covenant or to keep the Covenant in the Sign of it And but in the Second place to observe Circumcision namely but as it is that Sign So that a plain Distinction is mad● between the Obligation to observe the Sign and Token of the Covenant or to keep the Covenant in the Sign and Token of it and to keep it in Circumcision as that Sign and Token the Former arising from the very Nature of the Covenant Thou shalt keep my Covenant therefore and therefore of as perpetual Obligation and Existence as the Covenant it self But the Latter is more positive and Secondary Wherefore tho' there be an Alteration in the Second it will not follow that there must be one in the First or that the Covenant ought not to be observed in the Sign and Token of it if for certain Reasons Circumcision be no longer but something else be that Sign and Token The taking away the Second doth not destroy the First for being before it it may be without it Thou shalt keep the Sing of the Covenant that is First Circumcision is that Sign that is Second And why One in the first Place and the Other but in the Second but to shew the Covenant must be kept in the Sign of it even when no longer Circumcision but some other thing is in the Counsel of God ordained to be that Sign And indeed it is much that the taking and the putting of the Sign of the Covenant should as it is be called keeping of the Covenant Must not we Now keep God's Covenant And to the end you may see the Harmony of the Scripture and with it the Cogency of that Illation which I make from the Form of the Words here see the like Form of Words in the Fourth Commandment in relation to the Sabbath bottoming the like Illation Remember the sabbath-Sabbath-day to keep it holy that is first and as it is first so it is primarily Moral and Eternal and unchangeable But the Seventh is the Sabbath of the Lord that is in the second place and is but secondary and positive What Doth the Obligation to the First and that which is Primary in the Command cease because there is an Alteration in the Second and that not the Seventh but the First Day of the Week is now the Sabbath of the Lord Who will say it So though Circumcision be no longer the Sign and Token of the Covenant but another thing be It 't will not follow the Covenant is no longer to be observed in the Sign and Token of it because not Circumcision but that other Thing is now become that Sign and Token Which you will conceive the better if you bethink that Circumcision was not abolished in the Gospel as it was of the Fathers but as it was of Moses a Distinction Christ himself makes or not as it had relation to the Covenant of Promise as the Sign of it as if in that respect it were a weak and carnal thing but as it was Adopted by the Legal Mediator and made a Sign of that Administration and Covenant in which He had to do for afterwards who so was Circumcised did become a Debtor to the whole Law and therefore if the Law did cease Circumcision could not continue But remember it was on an Evangelical and Gracious Consideration that Circumcision did become the Sign of the Legal Covenant or Administration For why was it Were there not other Matters enough to make Signs of but that Circumcision which was a Sign of the Promise must be Impropriated to be the Token of the Mosaick Covenant Why was it then Not truly as you may think to make an Alteration in the Promise in respect of the Subjects to which the Sign Thereof was to be given or of any Priviledges or first and immediate Duties and Obligations of It but to establish and confirm the Promise For Circumcision the Sign and Token of the Promise was in Divine Wisdom annexed to the Legal Covenant as the Sign and Token of That for the same Reason that Jesus Christ himself who was the Capital Seed to whom the Promise was made was made the Minister of the Legal Circumcision He was the Angel that spake with Moses in the Wilderness or that gave the Law and He in the Days of his Flesh but preached to the Jews It was for the Truth of God to Confirm the Promises to the Fathers for so saith the Apostle Rom. 15. 8. Now I say that Jesus Christ was the Minister of the Circumcision for the Truth of God to confirm the Promises unto the Fathers I say for This Reason as also which is an Amplification of it perhaps to shew that there was no Salvation and Inheritance by the Works of the Law Circumcision which had been the Sign and Token of the Promise made to Abraham was taken and applied to be the Sign and Token of the Legal Covenant which came by Moses to Become which indeed by the capable Ceremoniality of it in some respects not as it was a Sign of the Covenant for there is nothing like a Ceremony in being but that but as it was confined to one Sex and in the Execution and Performance of it to a certain Day it was very Proper and Fit The Reason I say it was applied to the Legal Covenant besides the Fitness of it was for the Truth of God to Confirm and not either to Destroy or Alter the Promise made unto the Fathers God taking the Token of the Covenant of Promise and putting it upon the Legal Covenant to be a Sign of it to shew he had his Covenant of Promise still in Remembrance For Doing so He could never look on or so much as think on the Law but He must also remember the Promise the Sign and Memorial of the Promise being thus annexed and put to the Law Thus Circumcision the first Sign and Token of Abraham's Covenant though it were Adopted into the Law of Moses and made a Sign and Token of that Covenant in which he Mediated it was So but for the same Reason that Jesus Christ himself was made the Minister of it That is not in Derogation of the Promises made to Abraham and his Seed or of any Priviledges and Duties and Incumbencies arising from Them but in Confirmation of them It was for the Faith of God to confirm the Promises to the Fathers And therefore though as Adopted into the Law of Moses and made a Part and Member thereof it must consequently be annulled and cease therewith