The Covenant of Sovereign Grace (2)

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Bert Mulder
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The Covenant of Sovereign Grace (2)

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All objections to this plain teaching of the baptism form are doctrinal in nature. They are not due to a right reading of the clear language of the form, but to a doctrine of the covenant that differs from that of the form. They are not explanations of the form, but contrary views foisted on the form.

One such view holds that the form merely teaches that all the physical children of believers are formally and outwardly set apart from the world at baptism. Election, therefore, does not enter in. This is supposed to be the explanation of the statement that the infants are “again received unto grace in Christ.”

That reception unto grace in Christ is salvation does not need to be proved to any student of Scripture, but only declared. Besides, if the reception of our infants unto grace in Christ is merely outward and formal, having nothing to do with salvation, so also, according to the contrast in the baptism form, is their condemnation in Adam merely outward and formal, having nothing to do with being lost.

To be condemned in Adam is real lostness!

To be received unto grace in Christ is real salvation!


Read the whole article from the November 18 issue of the Standard Bearer here:

http://www.rfpa.org/sb/TheStandardBeare ... OCValue4=0
Mijn enige troost is, dat ik niet mijn, maar Jezus Christus eigen ben, Die voor mijn zonden betaald heeft, en zo bewaart, dat alles tot mijn zaligheid dienen moet; waarom Hij mij ook door Zijn Heilige Geest van eeuwig leven verzekert, en Hem voortaan te leven van harte willig en bereid maakt.
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