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An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it…
An exposition of the assemblies catechism with practical inferences from each question as it was carried on in the Lords Days exercises in Dartmouth, in the first year of liberty, 1688 / by John Flavell.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1692
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.
A. It appears by this, that they being Abraham's Seed, were taken into Covenant with God, and ordered to have the sign of the Covenant applied to them, and that Grant was never reversed, Gen. 17.7, 10. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. This is my covenant which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee, every man-child among you shall be circumcised.
A. It appears by this, that they being Abrahams Seed, were taken into Covenant with God, and ordered to have the sign of the Covenant applyed to them, and that Grant was never reversed, Gen. 17.7, 10. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations for an everlasting covenant to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. This is my covenant which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee, every man-child among you shall be circumcised.
Q. 3. But was not that the Covenant of Works, and so will not •old to infer their privilege under the Covenant of Grace?
Q. 3. But was not that the Covenant of Works, and so will not •old to infer their priviledge under the Covenant of Grace?
A. No, it was not; for God never did, nor will become a God by way of special interest to any people, by virtue of the Covenant of Works, since the breach of it by the fall.