Selected quad for the lemma: faith_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
faith_n	circumcision_n	righteousness_n	seal_n	13,716	5	9.8320	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30637	Vindiciæ pædo-baptismi, or, A confirmation of an argument lately emitted for infants baptism in a letter to a reverend divine of the Church of England / by R.B. ...	Burthogge, Richard, 1638?-ca. 1700.	1685 (1685)	Wing B6157A; ESTC R40304	32,736	88

Gods Sign be an Identick proposition and do signify no more than that Circumcision is Circumcision for if he say it signifies more as I should think he will then the Term Covenant or Sign in it must signify Generally and Largely In fine I would Ask him if when it Pleased God to say this is my Covenant which you shall keep every man Child among you shall be circumcised He then said no more than what he had before in verse the 9 th thou Shalt keep my Covenant therefore thou and thy Seed For if God do say no more or no other in verse 10. than he had said before in verse 9. then he saith but the same again But if he do say other or more as undoubtedly he does for now and not before he tells what the Covenant is then keeping of the Covenant verse the 9 th must be understood but generally as certainly it must and I have Evincedit must in some measure in my First Letter P. 25 26 27. but more expressly in my Second from P. 85. to 91. and most fully in my Last from P. 150. to 154. In these Places you will see the Vanity of his Boast P. 62. viz. that the sence cannot be General and Indeterminate for a General Indeterminate sence is no sence Thus General and Appellative Expressions are Nonsensicall to this man and owe no man any thing but to Love one another at this Rate shall signifie nothing as indeed it seemeth not to signifie much with Him because it is not said Owe not James Peter John or Paul but owe no man nothing but Love And so much for his two signs a Fiction of his Own which he would fasten on me whereas I never spoke or thought of two particular signs as Actually Instituted in the 17 th of Genesis but only of signing Generally spoken of verse 9. and of a Particular sign instituted In verse the 10 th Thus I spoke and still speak which no more doth signifie two signs than when one shall say God made man a Reasonable Creature and Peter is a man He speaks of two men of one in the former proposition and of another in the Latter As to the Third Point which he would put me upon which is to Prove That Abraham Represented the Carnal Seed only in Circumcision and Isaac the Spiritual Seed in Baptism I have spoken abundantly what my sense is as to the former already and as to the latter I have also already shewed it a Calumny as to the Implication that Isaac was Baptised and in Baptism was a Type But though he was not a Representative or Figure of the Spiritual Seed of Abraham the believing Gentiles in Baptism seeing he never was Baptised yet that he was a Representative of them in the Covenant of Promise and that as well in the Duty and obligation as in the Priviledge and Blessing of it is I think by this beyond all Dispute But of all this I have said enough before Isaac was not a Representative of the Believing Gentiles in Baptism but in the Covenant As to the 1 Cor 7. 14. from which I prove there is an External Relative holiness under the Gospel as well as an Internal and absolute He Roundly tells his Reader P. 24. for he never told me so before That as he hath already Demonstrated it doth not at all prove the Continuation of any External or Relative holiness arising from the Covenant But Sir you must not be too Easy in Believing of him as to Demonstration for I Assure you after what I answered in my First Letter from P. 33. to 49. which once you thought beyond Exception and I hope still do I never Received the least reply in any of his Letters as to That and therefore what he speaks P. 24. of Demonstration here It is as what he says of it in many other Places and with Reference to many other Particulars viz. But a Vision of his too much heated fancy and a Popular charm The world must know that he hath done great things some where but he cannot tell where himself Not that I would have you think too Confidently that here he is Catcht for though he have Affirmed as you may see he hath that he has already Demonstrated when Indeed he has not you must not presently believe he cannot make it out for this as Difficult as you or I would think it It is an Easie Atchivement to a man of his Performance He that can find a sign in Genesis 17. 9 as implyed in the sence for so he speaks P. 105. when yet himself says the Text mentions no sign at all or gives the least hint of any He I say that can Affirm the Text Mentions no sign at all nor gives the least hint of any and yet can Interpret what he sayes as he does that there is no such Term or a Syllable of that sound in the Text that is he that can say a thing is in the sence of the Text that is neither mentioned nor Hinted in the Least in the Terms of it He may say what he will you must not think to hold him if you think you have Him fast in the very Terms he will give you the slip by a Syllable of the sound and salve his Contradictions with Nonsense To be Mentioned and Hinted which with all others is to be Express'd and Imply'd in a Text by this Interpreter shall be understood of Sounds and not of Senses Ay though it be said no Mention nor hint of any sign And he that says any sign cannot be understood to mean the sound sign The Mention of the 1 Cor. 7. 14 Reminds me of his Amazement P. 128. for he is often Amazed Amazed much he was at my Exposition of Genesis 17. 9. 10. and now again Amazed almost as much at my Interpretation of Rom. 4. in my Argument from P. 166. to 168. And indeed nothing but a Mazement can Excuse his great mistakes as that I should say the Reward to Abraham was Personal and Earthly and was of Canaan only and that my Expressions have a sound that is Harsh and dissonant to Rom. 4. and 4. My design in Touching on this Text was only to Evince that Abraham's Receiving Circumcision as a Seal of the Righteousness by Faith which he had urged was nothing Contradictory to what I said Concerning His standing with Ishmael and the Rest of the Family Gen. 17. 10. in the Business of Circumcision how that they stood for and Represented there the whole natural Houshold That Canaan was the Reward of Abraham's Faith who but such a Sophister dares soberly to Deny it the Text is plain for it Genesis 15. 17. But that Heaven also was not his Reward I did not say no more then the Text doth which though in the Letter it doth but Mention Canaan yet surely it did not Exclude Heaven And as for the Danger and Dissonancy in my Expressions to Romans 4. 4. I ask him was not the