By: Thomas F. Booher I was late in coming to embrace covenant theology and household/covenantal/infant baptism (I did so in Bible college, despite growing up in a PCA church), but one motif in Scripture that strongly persuades me of the position is the Passover in Exodus 12. Note Matthew Henry's words on the meaning of the paschal lamb and the application of the blood. "Now, without doubt, there was much of the gospel in this ordinance; it is often referred to in the New Testament, and, in it, to us is the gospel preached, and not to them only, who could not stedfastly look to the end of these things, Heb. 4:2 ; 2 Co. 3:13 .1. The paschal lamb was typical. Christ is our Passover, 1 Co. 5:7 . (1.) It was to be a lamb; and Christ is the Lamb of God (Jn. 1:29 ), often in the Revelation called the Lamb, meek and innocent as a lamb, dumb before the shearers, before the butchers..." "The sprinkling of the blood was typical. (1.) It was no...
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