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The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter…
The defence of the nonconformists plea for peace, or, An account of the matter of their nonconformity against Mr. J. Cheney's answer called The conforming nonconformist, and The nonconforming conformist : to which is added the second part in answer to Mr. Cheney's Five undertakings / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for Benjamin Alsop, 1680
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.
2. To open here the nature of the Jews Covenant of Peculiarity, as one select Nation of whom Christ should come, as distinct from, and as conjunct with the common antecedent Covenant of Grace, and to show the reasons of the Institution of Circumcision of Abraham's peculiar Seed, and ⟨p. 142⟩not for all that from Adam and Noah, were under the common Law of Crace, would be a work which such a light occasion would not warrant me here to stand upon.
2. To open here the nature of the Iews Covenant of Peculiarity, as one select Nation of whom Christ should come, as distinct from, and as conjunct with the common antecedent Covenant of Grace, and to shew the reasons of the Institution of Circumcision of Abraham's peculiar Seed, and ⟨p. 142⟩not for all that from Adam and Noah, were under the common Law of Crace, would be a work which such a light occasion would not warrant me here to stand upon.
3. The sign of Circumcision, was but the seal annexed to the Covenant: And the mere External Act (as Water in Baptism) entered them but into the External Church-state.
3. The sign of Circumcision, was but the seal anexed to the Covenant: And the meer External Act (as Water in Baptism) entered them but into the External Church-state.
4. Almost all the gross Sinners at least, if presumptuous and impenitent, were to be put to death by that Law; And dead Men beget not Children. But I have so largely handled this in my 3d Disp. of Right to Sacraments, that while you leave it unanswered, I will not repeat it on so slight a Cause.