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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.
Aquinas Answering to a Question, Why Circumcision was commanded first to Abraham, and to none before? [Serm. Doct. 3. q. 70. Act. 2.] Answers, That Abraham was the first that received the Promise from God of Christ to be born out of his Seed, and the first that separated himself from the Society of Infidels. If this were true, it would serve to Answer our Question. Tho' A Laid labours to defend the Vulgar Transaction, Gen. 3.15. She shall bruise thy Head; yet he saith it come all to one. For it is the Woman by her Seed, that is Christ, that bruised the Serpents Head; Do we think the Lord did not teach his Servants then the use and end of the Sacrifices? So that Christ was promised before, and there were Believers before, if there were a little more revealing of Christ to Abraham now, that is all. I do more admire his Act in sacrificing his Son Isaac, though that is given to his fear of God, Gen. 22.12.
Aquinas Answering to a Question, Why Circumcision was commanded first to Abraham, and to none before? [Serm. Doct. 3. q. 70. Act. 2.] Answers, That Abraham was the first that received the Promise from God of Christ to be born out of his Seed, and the first that seperated himself from the Society of Infidels. If this were true, it would serve to Answer our Question. Tho' A La ide labours to defend the Vulgar Transaction, Gen. 3.15. She shall bruise thy Head; yet he saith it come all to one. For it is the Woman by her Seed, that is Christ, that bruised the Serpents Head; Do we think the Lord did not teach his Servants then the use and end of the Sacrifices? So that Christ was promised before, and there were Believers before, if there were a little more revealing of Christ to Abraham now, that is all. I do more admire his Act in sacrificing his Son Isaac, though that is given to his fear of God, Gen. 22.12.