First, then, to Abraham we grant this transcendent privilege, that he had the peculiar honour to be the father of all the faithful.
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Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.Thomas Goodwin
I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed.
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Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
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And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.
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It might have well sufficed us for our own persons to have come into his promise singly, and to be heirs according to the promise.
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Judas heard all Christ's sermons.
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