This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...of a religious, covenant connexion, with the church, or kingdom of God, belongs to the infants of believers. This connexion is now marked with the rite of baptism--the King's mark--the mark of those of his kingdom, 26. Infant baptism would have been a plain duty, if Christ and the apostles had said less than they have, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ...of a religious, covenant connexion, with the church, or kingdom of God, belongs to the infants of believers. This connexion is now marked with the rite of baptism--the King's mark--the mark of those of his kingdom, 26. Infant baptism would have been a plain duty, if Christ and the apostles had said less than they have, in relation to this subject. What one apostle has said, in the fourth chapter of Romans, and the third of Galatians, taken in connexion with the Old Testament, is enough to show, that infant baptism is a plain duty. For in these chapters, we are informed of the continuance of the covenant which God made with Abraham, and sealed with the sign of circumcision, --we are here taught, that, as Abraham believed in God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness, so the faith of all other believers, is counted to them for righteousness, --that Abraham was constituted the father of all them that believe, and they are his spiritual children, and blessed with him, according to God's covenant of promise, " To be a God unto him and to his seed." And all such, are brought into that covenant relation to God, in which Abraham stood, so that he is their God, as well as the God of Abraham. This shows that infant baptism is a duty. For the token of Abraham's covenant relation to God, was applied to his infants; and those who are in the same covenant relation, should apply the token of it to their infants, unless God has told them not to do it. For the continuance of the same covenant relation, implies the same duty, in applying the token of that relation. And if the token is changed, and is not confined to those who stand in the covenant relation of Abraham--if it is not forbidden to their infants, they have no right to withhold it from them. And Go...
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