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A60172 A replication to a late book written by Mr. Benjamin Keach against infants-baptism intituled A counter-antidote, &c. By Gyles Shute of Lime-house. Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51. 1694 (1694) Wing S3712; ESTC R221469 41,869 83

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3. And immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone and there was a rainbow round about the throne in sight like unto an emerald This was Christ whom God gave to be a Light unto the Gentiles and a Covenant of the People Isa 49.8 And the Rain-bow round about the Throne is an Allusion unto the Token of Noah's Covenant which is a Token of Mercy and Grace and the various providential Dispensations of God towards his Covenant-People and the various Gifts and Graces of the Spirit for the full accomplishment of all the Promises of the Covenant both to Jew and Gentile especially about the Latter-day Glory in calling and converting the Jews with the Fulness of the Gentiles when God will set Christ his King upon his Holy Hill in Zion and make all his Enemies his Foot-stool Psal 2.6 Psal 110.1 Which is Typified in that aforesaid Rev. 4.2 3. 2. We have Noah's Covenant recited in the Gospel by way of clear Expression in 1 Pet. 3. when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was a preparing wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us c. Here are Six things to be observed from these Texts aforesaid 1. Here is Noah's Covenant and the Token thereof brought down and joined to the Gospel-Dispensation and the Ordinance of Baptism which is the Initiating Seal of the Covenant in the room of Circumcision is also joined to it 2. As the Waters that drowned the Old World were Waters of Mercy to Noah and his Family because they bore up the Ark and saved them so Christ who is a Lyon of Judgment to the Ungodly is a Lamb of Mercy to his People and is the Ark of God wherein all the Elect of God are which is born up by the Power of God by the Waters of Regeneration unto Salvation of which Water Baptism is a Figure Titus 3.4 5. 3. As the Waters that were aspersed upon the Ark was a Token of Mercy and Grace to Noah and his Seed so is Water-baptism to Believers and all their Seed which is the Figure thereof Now how can this be a like Figure to the Dispensation of God towards Noah and all his Seed if our Children are excluded from Baptism the Figure thereof 4. This also points out unto us the subjects of Baptism as well as the Mode thereof 1. The Subjects of Baptism For as Noah and all his Children were in the Ark so all Believers and their Seed are in Covenant and ought to have the Figure of Noah's Preservation namely Baptism administred unto them in their Infancy For though all Noah's Seed were not eternally saved yet they were all in Covenant until Ham sinned himself out of it neither do I believe that all are saved or shall be saved that are baptized for Judas and Simon Magus and many others were baptized 2. It gives good Authority for sprinkling or pouring Water in Baptism for dipping or plunging is more like a punishment of Criminals than the solemnizing of Gods Holy Ordinance of Baptism It is a nearer Representation or Figure of Gods Wrath upon the Old World than of Grace and Mercy in the Covenant God made with Abraham and his Seed the blessing of which is devolved upon us Gentiles and our Children Gen. 12.3 Acts 3. Ye are the children of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers saying unto Abraham And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed Vnto you first God having raised up his Son Jesus sent him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities 5. As the Old ungodly World were all immersed and dipped in Wrath and Judgment so proud Pharaoh and all his Host were plunged and destroyed when he pursued Israel into the Red Sea but Israel passed through safely and were but sprinkled and so were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea 1 Cor. 10.1 2 3 4. 6. And Lastly By all these things God hath plainly demonstrated unto us that his Covenant Love and Grace is the same now as it was ever both to Believers and their Seed it is unchangable even like God himself that made it 3. Mr. K. saith in p. 25. The Covenant of Works was primarily made with Adam yet another Addition or Ministration of it was given on Mount Sinai and to that Covenant I did there prove Circumcision did appertain But how Mr. K. can make these things hang together I know not for Circumcision was Instituted 430 Years before the Ceremonial Law was given upon Mount Sinai and the Moral Law was from Adam's Time for Cain was Excommunicated for breaking the Moral Law But if the Moral Law was abrogated when the Ceremonial Law was then hath Mr. K. gained a Point for he saith the Substance of his other Arguments are in this and to prove it to be a Additional Ministration to the Covenant of Works saith he The Man that doth those things shall live in them Which latter is true in it self for there is no Salvation to be had without Moral Righteousness though not for it and so he lives in it in sincere Obedience though not in perfect Obedience for the latter is in Christs Obedience and tho' a Man in doing these things lives in them yet he is not justified by his own Obedience to the Moral Law but he is justified by Christs personal perfect Obedience both active and passive to the Law and Justice of God but by the Deeds of the Law no Flesh can be Justified in the sight of God Pray mind what the Apostle saith in Gal. 3.17 21. And this I say that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ the law which was four hundred and thirty years after cannot disanul that it should make the promise of none effect 2. Here is to be observed that the Everlasting Covenant God confirmed with Abraham of which Circumcision was a Token is called the Promise and the Sinai Covenant is called the Law but saith the Apostle in ver 21. Is the law then against the promises of God God forbid for if there had been a law given which could have given life verily righteousness should have been by the law Ver. 11. But that no man is justisted the law in the sight of God it is evident for The just shall live by faith 3. The Apostle doth clearly prove that the Sinai Covenant of Obedience to the Moral Law is still in force in Rom. 7.7 12. What shall we say then Is the law sin God forbid Nay I had not known sin but by the law for I had not known lust except the law had said Thou shalt not covet Wherefore the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and