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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.
Our Divines have cleared this so, that I say no more of it; and therefore being confirmed in Christ, it must be the same with the new Covenant. But as Christ was first revealed but obscurely in a promised Seed, but afterwards by the Prophets there was a clearer revealing of Christ the nearer the time this Son of Righteousness should rise: So the new Covenant was comprehended in this Covenant made with Abraham, but by the Prophets afterwards God revealed it more fully, after the Jews had so violated the Mount Sinai-Covenant. Hence that which Divines-call the Anima faederis, the Soul of the Covenant, I will be their God, was also in Abraham's Covenant.
My Author denies that Abraham's Covenant and the new Covenant are the same; he tells us, it was a mixed Covenant; there were two Seeds, and so Promises, and of two sorts, which must he applied right to the two Seeds.
My Author denies that Abraham's Covenant and the new Covenant are the same; he tells us, it was a mixed Covenant; there were two Seeds, and so Promises, and of two sorts, which must he applyed right to the two Seeds.
Ans. 1. How many Covenants shall we have in the Bible, by this Author? Camero is blamed by some Divines for making Three Covenants, but by this Author we shall have Four. 1. Adam's Covenant, or Covenant of Nature; 2. Abraham's Covenant; 3. The Israelites Covenant at Mount Sinai; 4. The New Covenant.