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title: 'A Present to Families: A Practical Work on the Covenant of Grace, as Given to Abraham: Designed to Promote Family Religion'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Rankin'
date: 1840-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Revelation (General and Special Revelation)'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 15'
- 'Genesis 17'
- 'Jeremiah 31'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/rankin-1840-a-present-to-families-a-practical-work-on-the-covenant-of-grace-as-given-to-abraham-designed-to-promote-family-religion
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# A Present to Families: A Practical Work on the Covenant of Grace, as Given to Abraham: Designed to Promote Family Religion

John Rankin's Practical Work on the Covenant of Grace presents the covenant to Abraham as God's plan to preserve true religion, tracing the church to the first family and urging family piety.

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