Thomas Blake on the new covenant and the birth-privileges of Christians

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... Secondly, Christians can produce new Covenant-advancing Scriptures, that Christ’s coming put them into a better and more comfortable condition then were believers in former ages: I would fain have them to produce any one new Covenant-depressing Scripture, to shew that we in any case are in a worse or more uncomfortable condition then our fathers. If it be said that though this Birth-privilege be taken away, yet we are not in a worse condition having it in other more desirable things enlarged.

Let these then shew when, and where this was taken away, and what was given in lieu and recompense of this want, and greatest discomfort that can come to a parent, as a parent, to have his issue expunged out of the number of God’s people who are holy: Let them produce those Scriptures, which so difference the old and new Covenant made with believers, that the one should be perpetual, the other personal; That the Covenant with the Jew shall transcend the Covenant with Christians, as an Inheritance for ever exceeds a Grant for term of life:

Let them give us an hint of any Reason why this privilege should belong to the heirs of Abraham’s body, and not to the heirs of his faith. That reason held forth by some, that Christ should come out of his loins is of no force, it excludes all the tribes out of that privilege but Judah, when every tribe of Israel in this were equal with Judah, every family of Judah’s tribe but David’s; And most of all, it would have excluded the seed of the Proselytes, that according to the flesh were strangers to Israel, when yet in this privilege they were equal. ...

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