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The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old

CHAPTER XII
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But who would conclude from this that repentance would not remove the curse?
Does not God expressly declare in the xxx.ch.of Deut., that if they repent, the curses written shall be removed from them?
And have we not innumerable instances recorded in the Old Testament, of sinners, and transgressors of this very law, received to pardon and favour, upon repentance and amendment?
So that this argument founded upon an unwarrantable undeniable interpolation, and supported by bad logic, is every way bad, and insulting to God and his (by Paul acknowledged) word.
Gal ch.iii.

16:--"To Abraham, and his seed were the promises made, He saith not ' and to seeds,' (as of roomy) but as of one, ' and to thy seed,' which is Christ." Here is an argument which one would think too far-fetched, even for Paul; and it is built on a perversion of a passage from Genesis, which Paul, bold as he was in these matters, certainly would not have ventured, if he had not the most assured confidence in the blinking credulity of his Galatian converts.

His argument in this place is drawn from the use of the word "seed" in the singular number, in the passage of Genesis, from whence he quotes.

And because the word seed is in the singular number, fag tells the "foolish Galatians," as he justly calls them, that this "seed" must mean one individual (and not many,) "which," says he, "is Christ." Now, let us look at the xv.
ch.

of Gen., from whence he quotes, and we shall see the force of this singular argument, derived from the use of the singular number.


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