3 9 ® The Birth - Priviledge and Covenant-holineffè Ch,43 cifion,.as maybe Peen, Gen. 22. For that of He6=. 11. 9 it is a myfiery what he will make of it , unleffe he will conclude , that becaufe Abraham fojourned in the land of Promife , that there- fore none were in Covenant that were not taken into that land ; fo Mofes and Aaron will be found out of Covenant. He addes. As for a vi ¡able Church feed of Abraham that is neither his feed by nature, nor by raving faith nor by excellency, in Whom the Nations of the Earth Jhoula be ble ffed, to Wit Chrifi ; I know none fuch in Scripture , therefore fame men have fancied inch a kinde of Church feed, as it ù called. Iknow not how laving faith comes in, when a faith of profeffion will ferve the turne ; erlbra. hams feed had Circumcifion as a Peale of the righteoufneffe of faith., when their Parents had no more then a faith of pro- feffion. Fourthly, Were all thefe things yielded, et the Propofition would not be made goodfrom hence. All there we fee are made good a- gainft his exceptions. Let us now fee the ftrength which he bath refereed for the fait pufh, for overthrow of this Propofition. T he inference (faith he) z not concerning title or right of Infants to the initial Seale as if the Covenant or Promife of it Pelf did give that; but the inference is concerning Abrahams duty that therefore he Amid be the more engaged to circumci fe his po.;ierity. He fhould rather have left this to his adverfaries for the ftrengthening of their propofition then have made ufe of it himfelf for refutation of it. It was Abrahams duty to give them according to Gods command the initial! Seale : in this Mailer Tombes and we are agreed : whether it will thence follow that they had right and title to it or without right, let the Reader determine. For enlargement he addes. " He was engaged to circumcife " only thofe that are males, and not afore eight dayes, and not I" only thofe that were from himfelf, but allo all in bis houfe, "whore children foever they were, which apparently fhewes that I" the giving Circumcifion was not commenfurate to the perfons intereft in the Covenant, but was to be given to perlons as well " out of the Covenant as in; If of Abrahams houfe , and not to "all that were in the Covenant ; to wit Females, which doth k" clearely prove that right to the initiall Seale, as it is called,of " Circumcifion , did not belong to perlons by vertue of the Co- " venant, but by force of the Command. If he can prove that Abraham
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