A41329:101
The plea of the children of believing-parents for their interest in Abraham's covenant, their…
The plea of the children of believing-parents for their interest in Abraham's covenant, their right to church-member-ship with their parents, and consequently their title to baptism. The cause of publishing this discourse after so many learned men have laboured in this province, is declared in the preface to the reader. By Giles Firmin.
London: printed for Tho. Simons, 1683
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.
Two Texts especially my Author pitch upon, because he thinks we build much upon them; Gen. 17.7. & 1 Cor. 7.14. and so we do: these he labours to take from us. That the children of the Jews were Church-members with their Parents, the Anabaptists acknowledge: Then they were made so, by this Covenant of God with Abraham and with his Seed, and the Commandment to Circumcise them; here then we must begin.
From the 17. Gen. 7. I lay the Argument thus.
A gracious Covenant made, signed, and sealed by God, with a believing Person and his Seed, and never repealed by God; that Covenant remaineth in force, and is to be signed and sealed unto his Seed.
But that Covenant of God with Abraham (to be his God, and the God of his Seed, was such a Covenant, and never repealed, Therefore