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Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…
Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending them against several sorts of opponents, especially against the second assault of that pious, reverend and dear brother Mr. Thomas Blake / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by R.W. for Nevil Simmons, 1658
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.
1. That External and Ceremonial Purity was then most openly looked at, which was but a Type of the spiritual purity under the Gospel: and therefore no wonder if God that then permitted Polygamy without reproof, permitted the circumcision of all Jews, yea encouraged it, seeing that the Body of that People were Gods visible Heritage, as a Type of the Catholic visible Church now. The Magistrates therefore might compel them as Jews to be Circumcised, but so may not ours compel us as Englishmen.
1. That External and Ceremonial Purity was then most openly looked at, which was but a Type of the spiritual purity under the Gospel: and therefore no wonder if God that then permitted Polygamie without reproof, permitted the circumcision of all Jews, yea encouraged it, seeing that the Body of that People were Gods visible Heritage, as a Type of the Catholick visible Church now. The Magistrates therefore might compell them as Jews to be Circumcised, but so may not ours compell us as Englishmen.
2. That Circumcision was not only appointed to be the seal of the Covenant of grace, but also a peculiar Covenant annexed to Abraham and his seed: and that not all, but those only that were to possess the land of Canaan: And therefore as it was not all the people that God had on earth that were promised to possess the land of Canaan, but only the Israelites, and those proselytes that came over to inhabit among them; so neither was Circumcision commanded to all, nor was necessary to them: but to a Jew it was necessary as a Jew, how ungodly soever.
2. That Circumcision was not only appointed to be the seal of the Covenant of grace, but also a peculiar Covenant annexed to Abraham and his seed: and that not all, but those only that were to possess the land of Canaan: And therefore as it was not all the people that God had on earth that were promised to possess the land of Canaan, but only the Israelites, and those proselites that came over to inhabite among them; so neither was Circumcision commanded to all, nor was necessary to them: but to a Jew it was necessary as a Jew, how ungodly soever.