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A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible…A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible…
A treatise of liturgies, power of the keys, and of matter of the visible church. In answer to the reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Ball. By Thomas Shepherd, sometimes fellow of Emanuel-College in Cambridge, and late pastor of Cambridge in New-England.A treatise of liturgies, power of the keyes, and of matter of the visible church. In answer to the reverend servant of Christ, Mr. John Ball. By Thomas Shephard, sometimes fellow of Emanuel-Colledge in Cambridge, and late pastour of Cambridge in New-England.
London: printed by E. Cotes for Andrew Crooke, 1652
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Answ. Whether Circumcision sealed any new Covenant made with Abraham, Gen. 17. or that before, Gen. 15. we will not contend, neither is it material, be it the same covenant he entered into before for substance, yet it is evident, 1 That this covenant was no• simply and only the covenant of grace, but had many peculiar ⟨p. 139⟩blessings belonging to Abraham, and his posterity, and family contained in it. Gen. 12. and 15. 2 It is very considerable that God made this Covenant with Abraham, when he called him out of that corrupt state of the Church in Eber's family to worship God more purely according to his institutions, Gen. 12. 1. with Josh. 24. 2. Thirdly, this covenant, Gen. 17. is more explicate, and full then before, and especially in that promise, which most properly concerns Church covenant, viz. that God would take Abraham and his seed into covenant with himself, even an everlasting covenant to be a God unto them, Vers. 7. and this in a special manner▪ is that, which the Lord saith he would now establish between Abraham and himself, viz. by this sign of the covenant, Vers. 9, 10, 11. Fourthly, this is the very covenant, which the Lord renewed with Abraham's seed afterward, when he established them to be a Church or people to himself, as is evident, Deut. 29. 12, 13. this the Lord is said oft to remember, viz. to remember his covenant with Abraham, when he visited his seed with any mercy: Exod. 6. 5, 6, 7, 8. Psal. 105. 8, 9