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Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregational churches by Mr…Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregationall churches by Mr…
Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregational churches by Mr John Cotton ... ; published by a friend to whom the author himself sent them over not long before his death.Certain queries tending to accommodation and communion of Presbyterian & Congregationall churches by Mr John Cotton ... ; published by a friend to whom the author himselfe sent them over not long before his death.
London: printed by M.S. for John Allen and Francis Eglesfield, 1654
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.
For it is not with such as with Ishmael and Esau, who though they were borne in the Church, and sealed under ⟨p. 12⟩the Covenant of Circumcision, yet when they grew up to years, the one mocked at the Heir of the Covenant, and the other despised the Birth-right of the Covenant; and so the one was cast out, and the other withdrew himself from the fellowship of the Church, and both of them deprived their children of Circumcision. But such is not the Case here of these we speak of; but rather they are like the Seed of the Israelites, who though many of them were not sincerely godly, yet whilst they held forth the public Profession of Gods People (Deut. 26.3. to 11.) and continued under the wing of the Covenant and subjection to the Ordinances; They were still accounted an holy Seed (Ezr. 9.2.) and so their children were Partakers of Circumcision. Yea further though themselves were sometimes kept from the Lords Supper (the Passover) for some or other uncleanness, yet that debarred not their children from Circumcision.
For it is not with such as with Ishmael and Esau, who though they were borne in the Church, and sealed under ⟨p. 12⟩the Covenant of Circumcision, yet when they grew up to yeares, the one mocked at the Heire of the Covenant, and the other despised the Birth-right of the Covenant; and so the one was cast out, and the other withdrew himselfe from the fellowship of the Church, and both of them deprived their children of Circumcision. But such is not the Case here of these we speake of; but rather they are like the Seed of the Israelites, who though many of them were not sincerely godly, yet whilst they held forth the publick Profession of Gods People (Deut. 26.3. to 11.) and continued under the wing of the Covenant and subjection to the Ordinances; They were still accounted an holy Seed (Ezr. 9.2.) and so their children were Partakers of Circumcision. Yea further though themselves were sometimes kept from the Lords Supper (the Passeover) for some or other uncleanness, yet that debarred not their children from Circumcision.