A Reformed Response to the Reformed Baptist View of Baptism and the Covenant (1)

That circumcision is the Old Testament counterpart of Christian baptism some Reformed Baptists will acknowledge. The two signs, they will admit, seal the same covenant promise concerning salvation from sin through the blood of Jesus Christ. But they then say that there was another covenant promise that came only to Israel, and that does not come also to the church today. This, they say, was a promise of blessings that were "earthly, material and temporal." In other words, they teach that Israel...