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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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Secondly, It may refer to the cutting down their Religious and Civil Rights, and Privileges.
Secondly, It may referr to the cutting down their Religious and Civil Rights, and Privileges.
1. When God takes away all the external and spiritual Immunities, Blessings and Favours, a People once enjoyed.
1. When God takes away all the external and spiritual Immunities, Blessings and Favours, a People once enjoy'd.
No Gospel more preached to them, no Ministers to preach it, the Hedge of Protection and Preservation plucked up, and ravenous Beasts let in to devour them; like as God threatened the National Church of Israel, Isa. 5. The Sun to shine upon them no more, nor the Clouds to rain upon them. This is a dismal cutting down.
No Gospel more preached to them, no Ministers to preach it, the Hedge of Protection and Preservation pluck'd up, and ravenous Beasts let in to devour them; like as God threatned the National Church of Israel, Isa. 5. The Sun to shine upon them no more, nor the Clouds to rain upon them. This is a dismal cutting down.