First off 1a and 1b are incorrect from a Particular Baptist position.

In the framework of the Particular Baptist we do not hold that Circumcision and Baptism are as closely related as you are implying in 1a.

In 1b I think John Owen discredits this. Is the New Covenant really New. - The PuritanBoard And he held to a Federal Theology.

I do believe Covenant Theology is true in Presenting a threefold understanding. There is a Covenant of Redemption, Covenant of Works, and a Covenant of Grace.

And that the Covenant of Works and Grace are overarching Covenants. The Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants are subservient to them as I state here.

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Originally Posted by PuritanCovenanter Herman Witsius Rich Barcellos sent this to me when i asked about a reference for it. The edition I have is den Dulk Christian Foundation distributed by P&R, reprinted 1990. Vol. II, p. 186, Witsius says of the Mosaic Cov., Quote: "It was a national covenant between God and Israel... [It] supposed a covenant of grace. ...It also supposed the doctrine of the covenant of works... This agreement therefore is a consequent both of the covenant of grace and of works; but was formally neither the one nor the other... If any should ask me, of what kind, whether of works or of grace? I shall answer, it is formally neither: but a covenant of sincere peity, which supposes both." I believe the Mosaic is subservient to both the Covenants of Grace and Works.

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