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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.
By virtue of this Covenant, God was said, To know them above all the Nations in the world, Amos 3.2. God set up his Tabernacle amongst them, and dwelt amongst them, Exod. 25.8. Psal. 135.1. Chose Israel for his peculiar treasure, Psal. 135.4. Gave them his Ordinances, Psal. 147.19, 20. God wrought for them wonderfully; and though they ⟨p. 34⟩provoked him exceedingly, yet he bare with them, and did not for Abraham's sake cast them out of his presence as yet, 2 King. 13.23. Thus was he a God to them, the whole visible Church of the Jews; by it God gave them a great advantage to lay hold upon God, to become their God, in an outward Covenant, in Efficacy, as well as in outward Administration: This I say, by virtue of this Covenant with Abraham, till, they dealt most wickedly with God in Covenant, rejecting Christ, the promised Seed in Abraham's. Covenant, in whom they should be blessed; then God brake Covenant with them, and cast them off, Zech. 11.10, 14.
By vertue of this Covenant, God was said, To know them above all the Nations in the world, Amos 3.2. God set up his Tabernacle amongst them, and dwelt amongst them, Exod. 25.8. Psal. 135.1. Chose Israel for his peculiar treasure, Psal. 135.4. Gave them his Ordinances, Psal. 147.19, 20