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A52051	A sermon of the baptizing of infants preached in the Abbey-Church at Westminster at the morning lecture, appointed by the honorable House of Commons / by Stephen Marshall ...	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing M774; ESTC R876	44,378	66

obedience towards God To conclude this All their externall promises in case of obedience all outward blessings which were to bee injoyed by them the Land of Canaan and all the good things in it all outward punishments and threatnings losse of their Countrey going into Captivity all their Sacrifices their Washings their Sprinklings their holy Persons holy Feasts and holy things were all of them but so many Administrations of the Covenant of Grace Earthly things then were not onely promised or threatned more distinctly and fully then now they are to them who are in Covenant but were figures signes types and Sacraments of spirituall things to bee injoyed both by them and by us as might bee cleared by abundance of particulars Take but that one instance of the Land of Canaan which albeit in it selfe it was but like other Lands yet was it by the Lord sanctified to spirituall ends where he would have his Tabernacle pitched and Temple built out of which Land when the ten Tribes were carried captive hee is said to have put them out of his sight the very Land being figuratively holy and a signe of Gods presence the resting of Gods people there a signe of their eternall rest in Heaven into which not Moses the Lawgiver but Joshua or Jesus the type of their true Jesus was to bring them neither did the Lord promise them entrance into or continuance in that Land but upon the same conditions upon which hee promiseth eternall life as true Faith in the Gospel with the love and feare of God and obedience of his Commandements Godlinesse having then as it hath now and alwayes the promise of good things for this life and the life to come of earthly things then more distinctly and fully and typically but of heavenly things more generally and sparingly whereas now on the contrary there is a more cleare and full revelation and promise of heavenly things but the promise of things earthly more generall and sparing Now this externall Administration of the Covenant is not the same with us as it was with them but the Covenant is the same they were under the same misery by nature had the same Christ the Lambe slaine from the beginning of the World the same conditions of Faith and repentance to bee made partakers of the Covenant had the same graces promised in the Covenant Circumcising of their heart to love the Lord c. Theirs was dispenced in darker Prophecies and obscurer Sacrifices types and Sacraments ours more gloriously and clearely and in a greater measure the cloathes indeed doe differ but the body is the same in both As is apparent if First you look but into the Prophecies that were made Jer. 31.33 Isaiah 59.21 Joel 2.32 and many other places where the same things are promised to the Gentiles when the Gospel should bee preached unto them which were first promised to Abraham and to his seed but more fully if you looke into the New Testament where you shall find Luke 1.54 55 69 70 72 73. Luke 2.31 32. that Christ and the kingdome of grace by him is acknowledged to bee the summe of the oath and Covenant which God had promised to Abraham and to his seed So Matth. 21.41 43. the same Vineyard that was let to the Jewes should afterward be let to the Gentiles the same kingdome of God which was formerly given to the Jews should be taken from them and given to the Gentiles So Rom. 11. the Gentiles were to bee ingraffed into the same stocke in which formerly the Jews had growne and from which they were now to bee cut off and into which in the end they should bee ingraffed againe So Gal. 3.8.14.16 Abraham had the same Gospel preached to him which is now preached to us the same blessing bestowed upon Abraham comes on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ that they as well as he might receive the promise of the Spirit through Faith they who receive the promise of the Spirit through faith have the blessing of Abraham come upon them as cleare is that Ephes. 2.13 to the end of the Chapter the partition wall which severed us from the Jewes is now broken downe and the Gentiles who formerly were afarre off are now taken in and made Inter-Commoners with the Jews the Apostle alluding to the manner of the Jewish worship where beyond the Court wherein the Jews did worship there was another Court divided from it by a sept or wall which was called Atrium gentium immundorum the Court of the Gentiles and of the uncleane nearer then which none of them might approach unto the Temple but now saith he The partition wall is broken downe and wee are no more Strangers and Forainers but made felow-Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of God and with them grow up unto an holy Temple in the Lord all which shews that the very selfe same priviledges formerly made peculiar to the Jews are now through Christ communicated to the Gentiles And this will yet more fully appeare if wee consider how St. Paul to the Galatians shews that the same seed of Abraham so much spoken of in the Covenant made with him is now found among the Gentiles as 〈◊〉 was formerly among the Jews there you shall find three sorts of Abrahams seed First Christ Gal. 3.16 the root and stock the head and Elder brother of all the rest Secondly all true beleevers are Abrahams seed cap. 3.29 these onely are made partakers of the spirituall part of the Covenant Thirdly you shall find another seed of Abraham who were onely circumcised in the flesh and not in the heart who though they were either borne of Abrahams seed or professed Abrahams faith and so were Jews facti though not nati made though not borne Jews becomming Proselytes yet never came to make Abrahams God their All-sufficient portion but placed their happinesse in somewhat which was not Christ either by seeking justification by the works of the Law being ignorant of Gods righteousnesse and going about to establish their own righteousnesse did not submit themselves unto the righteousnesse of God or placed their happinesse in satisfying the lusts of their flesh going a whoring after the creature and so though they were Abrahams seed by profession and outward cleaving to the Covenant yet were to be cast off with the rest of the uncircumcised of whom Ishmael and Esau were Types Gal. 4.22 c. Even so is it now in the times of the Gospel we have now Jesus Christ the Elder brother the first-born of the Covenant we have also true beleevers who are brethren and Co-heires with him who are properly the heires by promise and wee have also some who are onely a holy seed by externall profession Gal. 4.29 who either with the false Teachers which Paul there speaks of mingle justification by the Law and Gospell together or with others 2 Tim. 3.5 though they have a forme of godlinesse yet deny the power

Turkes dying in their Infancy as well as some of the Infants of Christians and so carry salvation by Christ out of the Church beyond the Covenant of grace where God never made any promise That God hath made a promise to bee the God of believers and of their Seed wee all know but where the promise is to bee found that hee will bee the God of the seed of such Parents who live and die his enemies and their seed not so much as called by the preaching of the Gospel I know not These men say the Covenant of grace made to the Jewes differs from the Covenant of grace made with Us but I desire to know whether in the one or in the other they find any promise of salvation by Christ to any Infants dying in their Infancie whose Parents no way belonged to the Family of GOD or Covenant of Grace The matter then being of such consequence and many amongst us in such danger of being seduced further then is easie to imagine through the subtilty activity and diligence of such as with a great shew of Scriptures and under a pretence of zeale doe creepe into Houses yea proclaime these things openly in Pulpits I take my selfe bound upon this occasion to shew you upon what grounds the Orthodox Church hath hitherto retained this practise and shall bring all that I intend to speake of it under two Arguments and under them shall indeavour to Answer whatsoever I have found of any moment objected to the contrary My first Argument is this The Infants of beleeving Parents are foederati therefore they must bee signati they are within the Covenant of grace belonging to Christs body kingdome family therefore are to partake of the seale of his Covenant or the distinguishing badge between them who are under the Covenant of grace and them who are not The ordinary Answer to this Argument is by denying that Infants are under the Covenant of Grace onely some few deny the consequence that although they were within the Covenant yet it followes not that they must bee sealed because say they the Women among the Jewes were under the Covenant yet received not Circumcision which was the seale of the Covenant but this receives an easie answer the Women were Circumcised in the Males else could not God have said that the whole house of Israel were Circumcised in the flesh else could not the whole Nation of the Jewes bee called the Circumcision in opposition to all the World beside who were called the Uncircumcision But for the better clearing of this whole Argument I shall indeavour to make good these five Conclusions First that the Covenant of Grace hath alwayes for substance been one and the same Secondly God will have the Infants of such as enter into Covenant with him bee counted his as well as their Parents Thirdly God hath ever since Abrahams time had a Seale to bee applied to such as enter into Covenant with him Fourthly by Gods owne order the Seed or Infants of Covenanters before Christs time were to be sealed with the seale of admission into his Covenant as well as their Parents Fifthly the priviledge of such as are in Covenant since Christs time are as honourable large and comfortable both to themselves and their children as they were before Christs time and these five Propositions made good the Argument will be strong and undeniable The first is That the Covenant of grace for substance hath alwayes been one and the same both to the Jewes and to the Gentiles Which to understand know that the new and living way to life was first revealed to Adam immediately after his fall and that blessed promise concerning the Seed of the woman was often renewed and the Patriarchs faith therein and salvation thereby recorded plentifully in the Scripture but the first time that ever it was revealed under the expresse name of a League or Covenant was with Abraham and therefore we shall need looke no higher then his dayes who because he was the first explicite Covenanter is called the father of the faithfull and ever since clearly hath all the world been divided into two distinct bodies or families the one called the Kingdome City Houshold of God to which all who owne the way to life were to joine themselves and these were called the Children of God the Sons of Abraham the Children of the Kingdome all the rest of the World the Kingdom of the Devill the Seed of the Serpent Strangers from the Covenant of Grace without God in the world c. Now I say that this Covenant of Grace hath for substance been alwayes the same for substance I say for wee must distinguish betwixt the Covenant it selfe and the manner of administration of this Covenant The substance of the Covenant on Gods part was to be Abrabrahams God and the God of his Seed to bee an Al-sufficient portion an Al-sufficient reward for him to give Jesus Christ to him and Righteousnesse with him both of Justification and of Sanctification and everlasting life On Abrahams part the substance of the Covenant was to beleeve in the promised Messiah to walke before God with a perfect heart to serve God according to his revealed wil to instruct his family c. The manner of administration of this Covenant at the first was by types and shadowes sacrifices c. And foure hundred and thirty yeeres after the Law was added with great terrour upon Mount Sinai not as a part of this Covenant but as the Apostle saith expressely it was added because of Transgressions to bee a Schoolemaster to whip to Christ Plainly in that giving of the Law there was something of the Covenant of workes made with Adam in Paradise yet in order to the Administration of the Covenant of grace there was a rehearsall of the Covenant of workes under which all men lie by nature untill they bee brought under the Covenant of grace and this was delivered with great terror and under most dreadfull penalties that they who were prone to seeke justification in themselves by finding the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the impossibility of their keeping the Law might be driven to seeke for a better Mediator even the Lord Jesus Christ as was excellently shadowed out Exod. 20.18 19 20. Deut. 5.24 when they cryed out to Moses that they might no more heare this dreadfull voice which would kill them but that they might bee spoken unto by a Mediator and GOD said they had well spoken and presently accepted Moses for their typicall mediator and by him gave them the Gospel in their Tabernacle Ordinances And there was also somthing of the administration of the Covenant of grace partly because all the threatning and cursing part of it was intended as a preparative and meanes to fit them for Christ and partly because the directing part of it containes that very rule whereby Abraham and all his Seed were ordered to walke in