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More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…
More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second defence of our infant rights and mercies in three parts ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for N. Simmons and J. Robinson, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And Ezra 9.2. They are called the holy seed.
Of that in Deut. 29. I have formerly spoke enough. It is called a Covenant. All Israel with their little ones did enter the Covenant and the oath with God, and which he made to them. It was a Covenant, to establish them for a people to himself, and that he may be to them a God, as he had before said and sworn. It is a Covenant made even with them that stood not there, whether it be meant only of the successive Israelites (and then it is not a transeunt Covenant) or of all people whoever that will accept of the same terms (and then it's not proper to Israel.) It is a Covenant not made to them as mere Israelites: but as obedient to the Covenant terms, and Covenant breaking would cut them off, vers. 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26. Is not Church-membership contained in, Gods being their God, and taking them for his people thus in Covenant? Doth not the promise give them an established right in this blessing? Is all this then no promise, but a transeunt fact?
Of that in Deut. 29. I have formerly spoke enough. It is called a Covenant. All Israel with their little ones did enter the Covenant and the oath with God, and which he made to them. It was a Covenant, to establish them for a people to himself, and that he may be to them a God, as he had before said and sworn. It is a Covenant made even with them that stood not there, whether it be meant only of the successive Israelites (and then it is not a transeunt Covenant) or of all people whoever that will accept of the same terms (and then it's not proper to Israel.) It is a Covenant not made to them as meer Israelites: but as obedient to the Covenant terms, and Covenant breaking would cut them off, vers. 19, 20, 21, 23, 25, 26. Is not Church-membership contained in, Gods being their God, and taking them for his people thus in Covenant? Doth not the promise give them an established right in this blessing? Is all this then no promise, but a transeunt fact?