The Birth- ..'rivaledge and Covenant -holia efe Ch.43 proof in Mafter Marfhal (he layes) peg. 3 5. It is from the par- " ticular inftitution of Circumcifion, becaufe it is faid, Gen. 17 7. " I will be a od to thee and thy feed after tkee,and verf,9. Thou !halt " [therefore] keep my Covenant, whence he would gather , that " the reafon why Abrahams Infants were to be circumcifed , was " their intereft in the Covenant ; and hence it is endeavoured to forme a generall rule thus. To them belongeth the initial!- " Seale, whether of the Jewifh or Chriftian Church, who have " intereft or title to the Covenant of Grace. To this he makes " a foure -fold anfw.er. Firft, c 4li the force of this proof (he (ayes) on the particle [there fore,] verf 9,and may be rendered; /Ind thou,or,but thou,ar well as, thou therefore, and ij by others rendered. Tu autem, and Tu verb, which are neither of them illative termer. I. We have no reafon but that it may be an illative as well as a, copulative, and being an illative particle, he hath no exception againft the flrength of it. 2. I deny, that all the force of the proof hangs on that particle; Let him look farther on into ver[ic,. This is my Covenant, which ye flaallh,eep between me and you, and thy feed after thee ; every man childe among youfhall he circumcafed; and take in with it Ails 8. And he gave him the Covenant of Circumcifion ; And Jo Abraham, begat Ifaac,, and circutncifed him the eight day, e-c. and let him at more leifure finde an anfwer to this argument. That which God himfeif calls by the name of a Covenant, ought not to be feparated from it : But God calls Circumcifion by the name of a Ergo they ought not to be feparated. 2. Let him confider the relation in which the Apoillé puts this Sacrament of Circurncifion to the Covenant, Rom. 4. rz. An inftituted appointed figde and feale, is not to. be divided from that which it- fignifies and feales ; Circumcifhon was an inffituted appointed I ligne and feale of the. Covenant; therefore it is not to be divided from it. Secondly, He -Byes, If it were granted, that .[therefore ú the bell reading; yet that the inference, verf. 9. fhould be made from the Promifë only, verf. 7. 1 will be a God to thee and thy feed after thee, and not as well,Iif not rather. from the Prom:re, verf. $. of giving to, hire and his feed the land of Canaan ; 1 finde no Ju ficient reafon. (riven This reference engages Matter,. Tombea x. In a- ,contra.. diction. ,
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