A41329:112
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.
1. When they acknowledge God to be the only true God, and their God.
1. When they acknowledge God to be the onely true God, and their God.
2. When they worship him with his own Worship only.
2. When they worship him with his own Worship onely.
3. When they profess his Truths, Doctrines, and take his Word for their Rule.
4. When they do Covenant and engage themselves to God. Yet among these may be many Hypocrites, and but formal Christians; as Branches are said to be in Christ, John 15.2.