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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	abel_n	abraham_n	holy_a	50	3	4.3635	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30628	An argument for infants baptisme deduced from the analogy of faith, and [of the] harmony of the [Scr]iptures : in which in a method wholly new, and upon grounds not commonly observed bo[th the] doctrine (of infants baptism) is fully asserted, and the objections against it are obviated / by Richard Burthogge.	Burthogge, Richard, 1638?-ca. 1700.	1684 (1684)	Wing B6148; ESTC R35796	83,110	210

between God and him and though they all did worship and honour God in way of Sacrifices in all which the Blessed Jesus the true Lamb of God was figured and represented and though Jesus Christ himself saith before Abraham was I am yet that it pleased God to transact with all or any or either of them before Abraham in way of Covenant or Promise for Eternal Life and Salvation or that Jesus Christ was Preached to them or otherwise exhibited then in Types and Figures which we are not told they understood is no where said or recorded or so much as hinted in the whole Scripture Our Saviour saith indeed that Abraham did see his day but he saith not nor do the Scriptures say that Adam Abel Enoch Noah c. saw it What might be Preached by the Spirit further then the Scriptures tell us and then the Holy Ghost is pleased in them to Reveal to us is no proper subject for our now Inquiry We are now to mind but what is Preached by the Scriptures and Recorded in them Remembring that the very silence of the Scriptures is Mystical as is evident in the case of Melchizedeck who though whatever Learned Cunaeus thought he were a Man and consequently was not really without Father without Mother without Genealogy without beginning of dayes or end of Life yet for great ends he is taken and expresly said to be so and that because nothing in the Least is written and recorded in the Holy Scriptures touching him as to these particulars And shew me any Scripture that but hints a Covenant made with Adam Abel Enoch with all or any of the Antient Fathers before Abraham or Promise made to them or any of them of Grace Eternal Life and Salvation wherein Almighty God did pass his word to be a God to them or either of them and their or either of their Seed after them I do not doubt but God was a God to them all as I doubt not that Melchisedeck had a Father Mother Genealogy beginning of dayes and end of Life but as the Holy Scriptures do no where mention any of these in Relation to Melchisedeck so they no where intimate that God before Abraham was a God to any of the Antient Fathers in a way of Covenant or promise for Grace Eternal Life or Salvation and therefore the least that can be said if we should be prevailed to acknowledge any such transaction must be seeing the Scripture is so deeply silent in it that as there is a mistery in the silence of the Scripture touching Melchisedeck so there is a Mystery in the silence of it touching any such Covenant or Promise if any such were to the Fathers and that as Melchisedeck to be a figure of the Eternal Priest must be brought in in Scripture as a man dropt out of the Clouds without any mention of Father Mother c. So likewise to the end that Abraham might be according to the Scriptures what in the Divine Council he was appointed and set up to be namely the Father of all the faithful or express Believers in Christ there must be no record in the Sacred Scriptures of any Promise of Christ before as made to any other or of any Explicit belief and Faith in him before for had there been either how could Abraham possibly be understood in the account of the Scriptures to have been the Father and so the first of all the faithful of all Believers in Christ He only is first before whom no other is Christ I deny not may have been Preached before Abraham and also promised by the Spirit but he is not Revealed in the Scriptures so to have been either Preached or Promised The Scripture is entirely silent as to any such Transaction If any such Covenant or Promise were of Christ before certainly in the account of Scripture it is as none and so must be looked on of us as none not the least impression or footstep of any such concern appearing I acknowledge the old Fathers to be said to have had faith in God but they are not said to have had any in Christ and these Faiths are so distinguished that they may be Actually divided you believe in God sayes Christ believe also in me The Old Fathers did believe in God they believed both that God was and that he was a Rewarder but Abraham did not only believe as they did in God but he also believed in Christ. If you ask me but is not God 〈◊〉 a Rewarder in and through Christ and not otherwise I answer yes and yet it is possible they might believe in God and not believe in Christ They might believe God to be a Rewarder as some Heathen do though they did not know him and therefore could not believe him to be so but in Christ That God is and is a Rewarder are Points of Natural Religion But that Christ is and God a Rewarder in Him are Points of Revelation I acknowledge that what you say is commonly taken for granted viz. That the Promise of Christ the Seed of the Woman was made to Adam And so much is true that Jesus Christ is introduced by the Psalmist as speaking of himself and saying that in the Volume of the Book or as some do render it in the Head of the book it is written of him and so though happily the Psalmist may have Aspect upon something else I grant it is Gen. 3. 15. for when it is there said that the Seed of the Woman shall break the Serpents head c. It must I confess be understood of Christ at least in the Mystery thus it is written of him but that Christ was promised to Adam is not written For what is written in the Volume or in the head of the Book concerning Christ is not written there as spoken by way of Promise to Adam but by way of denunciation to the Serpent and is part of the Sentence pronounced on him which if indeed it were within the hearing of Adam yet the Scripture doth not say it was so So little doth the Scripture concern Adam in that Transaction how great concern soever in reality he was to have in it So the Text Gen. 3. 14 15. And the Lord God said to the Serpent c. What he sayes to Adam is verse 17. 18 19. and of a very different nature Adeclaration I acknowledge there is of Christ from the beginning but in the Record of the Scripture that declaration is not noted as a transaction between God and Adam by way of Covenant or Promise All is said concerning it is in what did pass between God and the Serpent and some ad loc chuse to call it a Prophecy not a Promise of Christ. And it adds no little confirmation to the truth of what I have now discoursed that after the Revelation of Jesus Christ in what passed between God and the Serpent we have not for the long space of above Two Thousand Years the least Intimation in all the