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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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which Mistake I shall farther clear up hereafter, and proceed to the Fourth Proof.
Gal. 4. 30. Cast out the Bond-woman and her Son.
What is meant by the Bond-women Hagar, and Ishmael her Son, you may see, if you read vers. 23, 24, 25. It is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free woman, vers. 22. But he, who was born of the bond-women, was born after the Flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.
What is meant by the Bond-women Agar, and Ishmael her Son, you may see, if you read vers. 23, 24, 25. It is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free woman, vers. 22. But he, who was born of the bond-women, was born after the Flesh; but he of the free woman was by promise.
By being born after the Flesh, is opposed to him that was born by the Promise, the meaning is Ishmael; tho' he was Abraham's Seed or Son, according to the Flesh, yet he was not his Seed nor Son according to the Promise, or Covenant of Grace, God made with Abraham.