"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."

Virtue, Christ, Privilege

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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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"She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself."

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"To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect."

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

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"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."

Father

"We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us."

God

"My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out."

Love

"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."

Faith

"The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace."

God

"Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in."

Christ

"Judas heard all Christ's sermons."

Christ

"We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did."

Father

"It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations."

Generations

"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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