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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.
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.
2. Are there not outward Promises also annexed to the New Covenant, as well as to Abraham's? Do we not read them plainly?
3. Are there not two Seeds in your Administration of Baptism, to Adult Persons by Dipping; Real, and Formal? I am sure they are not all Real Christians; and do not your Baptism belong to the New Covenant, a Sign and Seal of the Grace thereof? Yet this you Administer to such, as prove Notorious Hypocrites.