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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.
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.
When God calls a people, and with his Call gives them Faith to answer his Call: So that now he is indeed their God, becomes theirs by Faith, and they who are thus in Covenant with him shall never fall.
2ly, The outward Covenant is more large; The Dispensation of this God gives on his part to Christians, and their Engagements on their part, is Faith in him, subjection to him: He doth engage himself to them, and if they answer the outward Privilege, he will make them a choice people, Exod. 19.5. Deut. 26.17, 18, &c. too long to transcribe.
2ly, The outward Covenant is more large; The Dispensation of this God gives on his part to Christians, and their Engagements on their part, is Faith in him, subjection to him: He doth engage himself to them, and if they answer the outward Priviledge, he will make them a choice people,