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Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
22. Abraham being faithful and escaping the Idolatry and wickednest of the world, was eminently favoured and beloved of God, and be••• ving 1and trusting God in his promises and in the great trial of his S••, is honoured with the name of the Father of the Faithful: And God renewed with him the Covenant of Grace which he had made to all men in Adam and Noah, with special application to his comfort; and added special peculiar Promise to him, that his Seed should be a holy Nation chosen out of all the world to God, and that of him the Messiah should come, of both which Promises (the common and the special) Circumcision was a Seal.
22. Abraham being faithful and escaping the Idolatry and wickednest of the world, was eminently favoured and beloved of God, and be••• ving 1and trusting God in his promises and in the great tryal of his S••, is honoured with the name of the Father of the Faithful: And God renewed with him the Covenant of Grace which he had made to all men in Adam and Noah, with special application to his comfort; and added• special peculiar Promise to him, that his Seed should be a holy Nation chosen out of all the world to God, and that of him the Messiah should come, of both which Promises (the common and the special) Circumcision was a Seal.
- 1Abraham's Promise.
23. Yet this was no repealing of the Law of Grace which had been made to all the world, nor was it an excommunicating or rejecting of all others, or a confining of Gods Grace and Church to him and his posterity alone; but only an exalting them above all others in these peculiar dignities and privileges. For at that time holy Shem was living, and long after, who in all likelihood was a King, and its like that the Posterity of him and Japheth were not all fallen away from God; and Melc zedek was such a King of Righteousness and Peace and Priest of the most high God as was a great type of Christ's own Heavenly Priesthood; and therefore it's like had some Subjects that feared and worshipped God The Scripture giving us the History of the Jewish Nation, and affairs the principal, and of the rest of the world but a little on the by, we cannot know by it the full state of all other Nations, nor what Religion