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To represent Christ and the benefits of the New Covenant, This is my Covenant which ye shall keep between me and you, and your seed after you, every man-child among you shall be Circumcised.","proofs":["Genesis 17:10"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"It is upon the account of the promise of the Covenant that any have the seal; hence it was that not only Abraham, but all his seed whilst in their infancie received the seal of Circumcision, because the promise of the Covenant was made to both, and by the same reason, not only believing parents, but also their infants are to receive the Seal of Baptism, the promise being made unto both; I will establish my Covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to be a God to thee and thy seed after thee. This is my Covenant which ye shall keep between me and you, and thy seed after thee, every man-child among you shall be Circumcised.","proofs":["Genesis 17:7, 10"]}]},{"document":"vincent1673","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/vincent1673/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"1. That the Infants of Christians have the Promise of the Covenant of Grace made with Abraham is evident, because that Covenant was an everlasting Covenant, I will establish my Covenant for an everlasting Covenant to be a God to thee and thy seed after thee;","proofs":["Genesis 17:7"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"1. All things.","proofs":["Genesis 1:1"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"3. All things in the space of six days, and all very good,","proofs":["Genesis 1:31"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"1. Male, and Female, after his own Image,","proofs":["Genesis 1:27"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"4. With dominion over the Creatures.","proofs":["Genesis 1:28"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"2. God forbade man, to eat of the tree of the knowledg of good and evil, upon pain of death,","proofs":["Genesis 2:17"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"The sin whereby our first Parents fell from the estate wherein they were created, was, their eating the forbidden fruit.","proofs":["Genesis 3:6"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"1. The Covenant was made with Adam. not only for himself, but for his posterity.","proofs":["Genesis 1:28","2:16–17"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"1. Lost communion with God.","proofs":["Genesis 3:8, 24"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"59","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/59","segments":[{"text":"1. From the beginning of the World to the Resurrection of Christ, God appointed the seventh day of the week to be the weekly Sabbath.","proofs":["Genesis 2:3"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"62","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/62","segments":[{"text":"4. Blessing the Sabbath day, should move us to keep the fourth Commandment.","proofs":["Genesis 2:3"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"2. The life of our neighbour unjustly,","proofs":["Genesis 9:6"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"2. Every meer man, since the fall, doth in this life break the Commandments of God, in Thought.","proofs":["Genesis 8:21"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"1. Represented to Believers.","proofs":["Genesis 17:10"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"2. The infants of such as are members of the visible Church, are to be baptized.","proofs":["Genesis 17:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is God All-sufficient,","proofs":["Genesis 17:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"5","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/5","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he is the most high God, Possessor of Heaven and Earth,","proofs":["Genesis 14:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"6","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/6","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For God said, Let us make Man,","proofs":["Genesis 1:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"Yes. In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth,","proofs":["Genesis 1:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"No. For he spake, and it was done; he said, Let there be Light, and there was Light,","proofs":["Genesis 1:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Earth was without Form and Void,","proofs":["Genesis 1:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God saw every thing that he had made, and behold it was very Good,","proofs":["Genesis 1:31"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Male and Female created he them, and called their Name Adam,","proofs":["Genesis 5:2"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For God said, Let us make Man,","proofs":["Genesis 1:26"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God made Man of the Dust of the Ground,","proofs":["Genesis 2:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he breathed into Man’s Nostrils the breath of Life,","proofs":["Genesis 2:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"10","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/10","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God created Man in his own Image,","proofs":["Genesis 1:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"11","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/11","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For shall not the Judge of all the Earth do Right?","proofs":["Genesis 18:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he put him into the Garden of Eden,","proofs":["Genesis 2:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he said, I will make him a help meet for him,","proofs":["Genesis 2:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he then blessed the Seventh Day, and sanctified it,","proofs":["Genesis 2:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Lord God Commanded the Man,","proofs":["Genesis 2:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil thou shalt not eat of it,","proofs":["Genesis 2:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For of every Tree in the Garden (even the Tree of Life) thou mayest freely eat,","proofs":["Genesis 2:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"12","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/12","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in the Day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die,","proofs":["Genesis 2:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For if thou dost not well, Sin lyes at the Door,","proofs":["Genesis 4:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. How shall I do this great Wickedness, and Sin against God?","proofs":["Genesis 39:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thou hast eaten of the Tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it,","proofs":["Genesis 3:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He said to the Woman, hath God said ye shall not eat?","proofs":["Genesis 3:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He said, ye shall not surely die,","proofs":["Genesis 3:4"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. In the Day ye eat thereof your Eyes shall be opened,","proofs":["Genesis 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Ye shall be as Gods,","proofs":["Genesis 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he said, God doth know this,","proofs":["Genesis 3:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"15","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/15","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For she took of the Fruit, and did eat, and gave also to her Husband with her, and he did eat,","proofs":["Genesis 3:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Adam call’d his Wive’s Name Eve, because she was the Mother of all living,","proofs":["Genesis 3:20"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he was to be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the Earth,","proofs":["Genesis 1:28"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For God always establish’d his Covenant with Men, and with their Seed after them,","proofs":["Genesis 9:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Adam begat a Son in his own Likeness,","proofs":["Genesis 5:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For God said to him, Dust thou art,","proofs":["Genesis 3:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"16","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/16","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For all Flesh hath corrupted his Way,","proofs":["Genesis 6:12"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"17","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/17","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Cursed is the Ground for thy sake,","proofs":["Genesis 3:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"18","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/18","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Imagination of Man’s Heart is evil from his Youth,","proofs":["Genesis 8:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Woman said, The Serpent beguiled me,","proofs":["Genesis 3:13"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For they knew that they were naked,","proofs":["Genesis 3:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For they hid themselves from the Presence of the Lord God among the Trees of the Garden,","proofs":["Genesis 3:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he drove out the Man,","proofs":["Genesis 3:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"No. For Cherubims and a flaming Sword were set to keep that Way to the Tree of Life,","proofs":["Genesis 3:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Cursed is the Ground for thy sake,","proofs":["Genesis 3:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. In Sorrow shalt thou eat all the Days of thy Life,","proofs":["Genesis 3:17"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thorns and Thistles shall it bring forth,","proofs":["Genesis 3:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. In the Sweat of thy Face shalt thou eat Bread,","proofs":["Genesis 3:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"19","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/19","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Dust thou art, and to Dust thou shalt return,","proofs":["Genesis 3:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Walk before me, and be thou perfect,","proofs":["Genesis 17:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it was said to him, That the Seed of the Woman should break the Serpent’s Head,","proofs":["Genesis 3:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Seed of the Woman must break the Serpent’s Head,","proofs":["Genesis 3:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"22","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/22","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For it was said to Abraham, In thy Seed shall all the Nations of the Earth be blessed,","proofs":["Genesis 22:18"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thou shalt bruise his Heel,","proofs":["Genesis 3:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"40","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/40","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For God created Man in his own Image,","proofs":["Genesis 1:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"41","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/41","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Abraham commanded his Children to keep the Way of the Lord,","proofs":["Genesis 18:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"46","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/46","segments":[{"text":"Yes. As Enoch walked with God,","proofs":["Genesis 5:24"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"54","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/54","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For we that are but Dust and Ashes speak to the Lord of Glory,","proofs":["Genesis 18:27"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"57","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/57","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in the sweat of thy Face shalt thou eat Bread,","proofs":["Genesis 3:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"58","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/58","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Evening and the Morning was the First Day,","proofs":["Genesis 1:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"59","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/59","segments":[{"text":"Yes. God blessed the Seventh Day, and sanctified it, when the Heavens and the Earth were finished,","proofs":["Genesis 2:1, 3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"59","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/59","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Because that in it he rested from all his Work,","proofs":["Genesis 2:3"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Jacob obey’d his Father, and his Mother, and went to Padan-Aram for a Wife,","proofs":["Genesis 28:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. They are the Children which God hath graciously given thy Servant,","proofs":["Genesis 33:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I know Abraham that he will command his Children to keep the Way of the Lord,","proofs":["Genesis 18:19"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"64","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/64","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only Son,","proofs":["Genesis 22:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"65","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/65","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Let there be no Strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my Herdmen, and thy Herdmen, for we be Brethren,","proofs":["Genesis 13:8"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"68","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/68","segments":[{"text":"Yes. It was Cain that said, Am I my Brother’s Keeper?","proofs":["Genesis 4:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"No. For surely your Blood of your Lives will I require,","proofs":["Genesis 9:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Voice of thy Brother’s Blood cries,","proofs":["Genesis 4:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Whoso sheds Man’s Blood, by Man shall his Blood be shed,","proofs":["Genesis 9:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"69","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/69","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For in the Image of God made he Man,","proofs":["Genesis 9:6"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"70","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/70","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For Abimelech call’d Adultery a great Sin,","proofs":["Genesis 20:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"72","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/72","segments":[{"text":"Yes. How can I do this great Wickedness and Sin against God,","proofs":["Genesis 39:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"79","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/79","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For her Husband is to her a covering of the Eyes,","proofs":["Genesis 20:16"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"80","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/80","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I am not worthy of the least of all thy Mercies,","proofs":["Genesis 32:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"81","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/81","segments":[{"text":"Yes. As Rachel that said, Give me Children, or else I die,","proofs":["Genesis 30:1"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For he drank of the Wine, and was Drunk,","proofs":["Genesis 9:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"82","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/82","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For the Imagination of Man’s Heart is evil from his Youth,","proofs":["Genesis 8:21"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"Yes. To be a God to thee, and to thy Seed after thee,","proofs":["Genesis 17:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"93","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/93","segments":[{"text":"Yes. The Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil,","proofs":["Genesis 2:9"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"Yes. I will be a God to thee, and to thy Seed,","proofs":["Genesis 17:7"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"95","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/95","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Every Man-child among you shall be circumcis’d,","proofs":["Genesis 17:10"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"96","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/96","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Because the thing is established,","proofs":["Genesis 41:32"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"96","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/96","segments":[{"text":"Yes. As Isaac made a Feast for Abimelech when they sware one to another,","proofs":["Genesis 26:30–31"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"97","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/97","segments":[{"text":"Yes. Tarry ye here while I go yonder and worship,","proofs":["Genesis 22:5"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"98","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/98","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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