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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.
But that Covenant of God with Abraham (to be his God, and the God of his Seed, was such a Covenant, and never repealed, Therefore
This we premise, There is a great difference between the outward Administration of an Ordinance, and the inward Efficacy? This is clear in the Lords Supper, ⟨p. 33⟩preaching the Word, and so in Baptism; the Scripture is plain for this, and the Anabaptists cannot deny it.
Or, if you please to take Mr. Tho. Hooker's distinction, There is an Inward and an Outward Covenant. [Cov. of Grace, p. 2.3.]
Inward, standing in a spiritual Institution of it between God and man.