¡Ch.5 of the mite of Beleever!. 2 5 3 circurncife the flef77 ofyour fore-skin and it ß.:Il be a token of the , Covenant betwixt me and you, They that had the figne and feale of the Covenant that had it by divine appointment, they were a people in Covenant. This is fo plaine, that nothing can be more plaine ; God Both not enter Covenant with one, and give the figne and feale to another : But all the natural( feed of ,1- braham by Ifaac and ?acob, had the feale,viz, all the males, thofe that were in a capacity of it, it was not limited to the fpirituall feed. There had been no place for that diftindion of Circum- cifion in the flefh, and Circumcifion of the heart ; if none .muff be circumcifed in flefh, but thofe that are circumcifed in heart. My third Argument is drawn from the Comment that God himfeif makes of this Covenant, in the whole Series of Scripture- fiery, holding it every where out in this way of tenure, to A- braham and his natural iffue,as before; where God himfelffpeaks to the whole body of Ifrael , when they were newly come up out of the land of Egypt, he (ayes /am the Lordyour God, Exod. 20.2. Deut. 5. 6. A ll that whole people he owned as his , all of them being t46rahams natural( iffue , yet all of them were not fpiritual ; and while they were in Egypt God fpeaks of them all in community as his ; Let my people go, that they may hold a feafl unto me in the wildernefre, Exod. 5. i. We fee the titles that he gives them, Children of the Lord your God , an holy People, a pecu -. liar People above all Nations, Deut. 14. I, z. That fpeech of the Lord to Ifrael Amos 3,1, 2. is very full to our purpofe: Keare ye the word of the Lord that he loath f oken again. )ou, O children ofIfrael againff the whole family Which 1 brought up from the land of Egypt, laying 7 ou only have 1 known of all the families of the earth, therefore I Will punifh you for all your iniquities. Eve. ry one that defcended from Jacob the whole of the family that came out of egypt, were a feted people to God in Covenant ; he was according to the termes of that Covenant, their God. There is not a place where God calls them by the name othis people (which are almoff endlefl'e;) but there we have this confirmed, that that people were the Lords by vertue of this grant made to Abraham and his feed. In the fourth place, I argue from the prac`lice of the people of God, making this Covenant of God entred with Abraham and K 3 his Were owned of God as his people. Pleaded their interefi in the Covenant for obtaining of mercy.
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