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As Circumcision was a Seal of the righteousness of Faith [or of the Covenant] as well when Ishmael received it, as when Abraham received it.","proofs":["Romans 4:11"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"9","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/9","segments":[{"text":"That the difficulties which lie in the way of the promises, need be no stumbling-blocks to our Faith.","proofs":["Romans 4:20–21"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"20","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/20","segments":[{"text":"It was made with him, and all his natural Posterity, descending in the ordinary way of Generation from him.","proofs":["Romans 4:12"]},{"text":"Wherefore as by one man sin entred into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned.","proofs":["Romans 4:14"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"31","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/31","segments":[{"text":"He raised it from the dead, for our Justification.","proofs":["Romans 4:25"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"43","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/43","segments":[{"text":"It is for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us.","proofs":["Romans 4:6"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"73","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/73","segments":[{"text":"but the meaning is not, that we fulfil it in our own persons by our compleat obedience to it, but it is fulfilled in us by our union with Christ, who perfectly kept it; and that Righteousness of the Law which is in Christ, becomes ours by Gods imputation of it to us,","proofs":["Romans 4:23–24"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"77","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/77","segments":[{"text":"And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ: the righteouness which is of God by faith.","proofs":["Romans 4:5"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"The first foundation or prop of Faith is the power of God,","proofs":["Romans 4:20–21"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"Staggerings in our assent to Divine Truths argue the weakness of Faith,","proofs":["Romans 4:20"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"78","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/78","segments":[{"text":"A strong Faith gives much Glory to God,","proofs":["Romans 4:19–20"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/83","segments":[{"text":"Though the Word be not found in Scripture, yet the thing intended by it is, and that brings the word in use, for in the Sacraments God obliges himself to us by confirming his Covenant by it,","proofs":["Romans 4:11"]}]},{"document":"flavel1692","id":"83","url":"/api/v1/documents/flavel1692/entries/83","segments":[{"text":"&c. 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To seal and apply Christ and the benefits of the New Covenant, And he received the sign of Circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of Faith which he had being uncircumcised.","proofs":["Romans 4:11"]}]},{"document":"lye1672","id":"92","url":"/api/v1/documents/lye1672/entries/92","segments":[{"text":"2. Seal’d, and applied to Believers.","proofs":["Romans 4:11"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"14","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/14","segments":[{"text":"Yes. For where there is no Law, there is no Transgression,","proofs":["Romans 4:15"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"27","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/27","segments":[{"text":"Yes. He was delivered for our Offences,","proofs":["Romans 4:25"]}]},{"document":"henry1703","id":"28","url":"/api/v1/documents/henry1703/entries/28","segments":[{"text":"Yes. 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