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The axe laid to the root, or, One blow more at the foundation of…The ax laid to the root, or, One blow more at the foundation of…
The axe laid to the root, or, One blow more at the foundation of infant baptism, and church-membership. Part I containing an exposition of that metaphorical text of Holy Scripture, Mat. 3. 10. : being the substance of two sermons lately preached, with some additions, wherein is showed that God made a two-fold covenant with Abraham, and that circumcision appertained not to the covenant of grace, but to the legal and external covenant God made with Abraham's natural seed, as such : together with an answer to Mr. John Flavel's last grand arguments in his Vindiciarum Vindex, in his last reply to Mr. Philip Cary, also to Mr. Rothwell's Pædo-baptisms vindicatur, as to what seems most material / by Benjamin Keach ...The ax laid to the root, or, One blow more at the foundation of infant baptism, and church-membership. Part I containing an exposition of that metaphorical text of Holy Scripture, Mat. 3. 10. : being the substance of two sermons lately preached, with some additions, wherein is shewed that God made a two-fold covenant with Abraham, and that circumcision appertained not to the covenant of grace, but to the legal and external covenant God made with Abraham's natural seed, as such : together with an answer to Mr. John Flavel's last grand arguments in his Vindiciarum Vindex, in his last reply to Mr. Philip Cary, also to Mr. Rothwell's Pædo-baptisms vindicatur, as to what seems most material / by Benjamin Keach ...
London : Printed for the author, and are to be sold by John Harris ..., 1693
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1. Christ, personally considered to Abraham and his Seed, was the Promise made, he saith, Not as of seeds as to many, but as of one, and to thy seed which is Christ, Gal. 3. 16. Now as the Promise refers to Christ, so the Infants of believing Gentiles, all will say are not Abraham's Seed.
1. Christ, personally considered to Abraham and his Seed, was the Promise made, he saith, Not as of seeds as to many, but as of one, and to thy seed which is Christ, Gal. 3. 16. Now as the Promise referrs to Christ, so the Infants of believing Gentiles, all will say are not Abraham's Seed.
2. All the Elect, or whole Body of Believers, who have the Faith of Abraham, and walk in the Steps of Abraham, these are called Abraham's Seed: Now none can be so blind, as once to suppose, the Children of Believing Gentiles as such, are the Seed of Abraham. Can Infants believe in God, as Abraham did? or, Can they walk in his Steps? or, which is more, are their natural Off-spring as such, of the Election of Grace? Doth it appear so? or, Doth it not appear, to the contrary? viz. Do not many of their Seed prove wicked and ungodly Persons, and so live and dye? Certainly, were they all as such Elected, they should be all Converted, we are chosen to be Holy, &c. Eph. 14. 4. and if you be Christ's, then are you Abraham's Seed and Heirs according to the Promise, Gal. 3. 29.
2. All the Elect, or whole Body of Believers, who have the Faith of Abraham, and walk in the Steps of Abraham, these are called Abraham's Seed: Now none can be so blind, as once to suppose, the Children of Believing Gentiles as such, are the Seed of Abraham. Can Infants believe in God, as Abraham did? or, Can they walk in his Steps? or, which is more, are their natural Off-spring as such, of the Election of Grace? Doth it appear so? or, Doth it not appear, to the contrary? viz. Do not many of their Seed prove wicked and ungodly Persons, and so liveand dye? Certainly, were they all as such Elected, they should be all Converted, we are chosen to be Holy, &c. Eph. 14. 4. and if you be Christ's, then are you Abraham's Seed and Heirs according to the Promise,