Treatise on Christian Baptism: Relating to the Mode of Baptism, to the Subjects, to the Import, Design, and Use of Infant Baptism, and to Close Communion

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Pierce & Parker, 1833 - Baptism - 190 pages
 

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Page 68 - it, and* to thy seed. And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth ; and thou shall spread abroad to the west,- and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee,' and in thy seed, shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Page 70 - Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace, • to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed"; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all; as, it is written, I have made
Page 137 - repented long ago in sackcloth, and .ashes. But I say unto you,, it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you. And thou Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, (hall be brought down to hell; for, if the mighty works which have
Page 123 - He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children, .... . . . '. that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments."
Page 57 - same language, he addresses his church under the Christian dispensation; " Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people." 1. Pet. ii. 9. 4. The prophecies of Scripture clearly show, that the present visible church is the same with the church of Israel. John the Baptist predicted of him
Page 68 - a pa,rt of this covenant. Indeed, this is expressly asserted by the Apostle ^Peter. "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.
Page 71 - 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.
Page 69 - This \ say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Page 68 - 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." Acts iii. 25. This promise is here expressly quoted, as belonging to the one covenant which God made with Abraham.
Page 142 - Testament, than that the church of Christ is one body. " As we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office, so.we, being many, are one body in Christ,

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