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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. Open the Scope and Coherence thereof. 2. Explain the Parts and Terms therein contained. 3. I shall observe some Points of Doctrine reducible there-from. 4. Shall improve the Whole by way of Application.
1. Open the Scope and Coherence thereof. 2. Explain the Parts and Terms therein contained. 3. I shall observe some Points of Doctrine reducable there-from. 4. Shall improve the Whole by way of Application.
First, From the Scope and Coherence of the Place, 'tis evident, that John Baptist endeavours to take off the Jews, particularly the Pharisees and Sadducees, from the external and legal Covenant God made with Abraham and his Fleshly-seed, or Off-spring. See vers. 7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his Baptism, he said unto them, O generation of Vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the Wrath to come.
First, From the Scope and Coherence of the Place, 'tis evident, that John Baptist endeavours to take off the Jews, particularly the Pharisees and Sadduces, from the external and legal Covenant God made with Abraham and his Fleshly-seed, or Off-spring. See vers. 7. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadduces come to his Baptism, he said unto them, O generation of Vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the Wrath to come.
Historians tell us, That there were Three more eminent Religious Sects amongst the Jews, the First were called Essenes, of whom we do not read in the Holy Scripture; their main Doctrine was Fate; they (say our Annotators) ascribed all Things to it. Secondly, The Sadducees were directly opposite to the Essenes, they ascribed nothing to Fate, but asserted the Liberty and Power of Man's Will, in the most largest Sense, or in the extravagant Height; they denied the Immortality of the Soul of Man, the Resurrection, Angels, &c. All which, the Pharisees owned. See