Early English Printed Sermons

The ax laid to the root, or, One blow more at the foundation of infant baptism, and church-membership. Part I containing an exposition of that metaphorical text of Holy Scripture, Mat. 3. 10. : being the substance of two sermons lately preached, with some additions, wherein is shewed that God made a two-fold covenant with Abraham, and that circumcision appertained not to the covenant of grace, but to the legal and external covenant God made with Abraham's natural seed, as such : together with an answer to Mr. John Flavel's last grand arguments in his Vindiciarum Vindex, in his last reply to Mr. Philip Cary, also to Mr. Rothwell's Pædo-baptisms vindicatur, as to what seems most material / by Benjamin Keach ...

Location	Text	Standardized Text	Parts of Speech
In-Text	But what of that, Now the Ax is laid to the Root of the Trees;	But what of that, Now the Ax is laid to the Root of the Trees;	cc-acp q-crq pp-f d, av dt n1 vbz vvn p-acp dt n1 pp-f dt n2;

Verse & Version	Verse Text	Text	Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note	Cosine Similarity Score	Cross Encoder Score	Okapi BM25 Score
Luke 3.9 (ODRV) - 0	luke 3.9: for now the axe is put to the roote of the trees.	the ax is laid to the root of the trees	True	0.785	0.851	0.551
Matthew 3.10 (ODRV) - 0	matthew 3.10: for now the axe is put to the roote of the trees.	the ax is laid to the root of the trees	True	0.777	0.86	0.551
Matthew 3.10 (AKJV) - 0	matthew 3.10: and now also the axe is layd vnto the root of the trees:	the ax is laid to the root of the trees	True	0.771	0.92	2.288
Luke 3.9 (AKJV) - 0	luke 3.9: and now also the axe is laid vnto the root of the trees:	the ax is laid to the root of the trees	True	0.771	0.919	4.936
Luke 3.9 (Geneva) - 0	luke 3.9: nowe also is the axe layed vnto the roote of the trees:	the ax is laid to the root of the trees	True	0.741	0.903	0.49

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