Was the Abrahamic covenant of circumcision a covenant of grace, works, or both? Whatever it was, it wasn’t the covenant of grace, the new covenant.
The Old Covenant of Works and the New Covenant of Grace – Edward Hutchinson | The Confessing Baptist.
Covenant of Circumcision
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Philip Cary responds to… Objection! There’s grace in every covenant!.
Philip Cary and John Owen explain how No one was saved by virtue of the Old Covenant.
Here’s a great little post outlining the true crux of the difference between (2nd London) confessional Particular Baptists and Reformed Paedobaptists. It contains a section from Isaac Backus’ A Short Discription of the Difference Between the Bond-woman and the Free. It explains the Abrahamic Covenant and the Covenant of Grace in terms of Typology and Federal Headship.
Samuel Fisher, in his Bapybaptism Mere Babism, distinguishes between Law and Gospel, the Abrahamic and new covenants, and the promises of each, highlighting The meliority of the new covenant.
Isaac Backus comments, arguing that…
Sam Renihan has some very helpful things to say in another PB thread:
but the heart of it is the question of whether or not the Abrahamic Covenant (and the Mosaic and Davidic Covenants) are one in substance and essence with the Covenant of Grace.Is it not possible that in fact the heart of the matter is not whether they are one in substance and essence but rather whether there is a difference in administration? I believe our confession teaches that all the covenants are revelations/administrations of the Covenant of Grace (including Mosaic) does that not require that in essence and substance they are one, whatever differences there may be in more periphery ways?
Brother, it is certainly true that many Baptists hold this position and approach the debate from the stance which you have articulated. However, I would respectfully argue that this is not what the confession…
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