A View of the Economy of the Church of God; As It Existed Primitively, Under the Abrahamic Dispensation and the Sinai Law and as It Is Perpetuated ... Particularly in Regard to the Covenants - Tapa blanda

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. 1807. Excerpt: ... Respecting the membership of infants in the Jewish, and Chrir tian Church; the application of the seals to them; and the manner in which they are to be treated, by the officers, and adult members of the Church.--"- "% Dr. GILL, and several other Baptist writer, have freely conceded the fact, of the membership of infants in the Jewish Church. But they have not been candid enough to carry up this membership to itsfounda tion in the Abrahamic covenant, notwithstanding they can find no posterior law, ordaining such a revolution in the society of Israel. To get rid of this difficulty, which' seems altogether insuperable, they set up their own authority against that of the Deity; and, in opposition todemonstrative evidence, convert the garden of God into an aceldema of dry bones. It is presumed that the analysis which has been given of the Abrahamic covenant has proved, that infant membership was established in that covenant; that it was in fact, the most distinguishing feature of it. This covenant, it has been shewn, constituted a religious and an indissolvable society, which was to be transmitted, allowing for adult proselytism, seminally, from generation to generation to-the end of the world. It is accordingly a fact, that from Abraham to the Exodus, infants were comprehended in the covenant alliance, and went to compose the society of Israel. It is a fact, not to be contested, that this continued to be the case till the Sinai covenant. And it is a fact conceded, which therefore we have no need to spend time to prove, that it continued ever afterwards, to the coming of the Messiah. He himself became a member pf this society by birth. No law of the Sinai covenant, ordaining the membership of infants at all, and especially as a new thing, can be produced. Infa...