A41329:140
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
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2ly, When the Anti-type comes, the Type cease: When then Isaac, Jacob, and the Israelites, that are the natural Seed, come to be the Spiritual Seed, then they must cease to be his natural Seed: But how is this possible? When Christ came, the Types ceased.
3ly, When you Dip your Regenerate persons; actual Believers you think they are: then they are the Seed of Abraham you judge; then Abraham is their Father; then God is their God: but divers of these are Hypocrites, we know they have proved so, and we shall hear an Anabaptist anon acknowledge it: they professed they took him for their God, and worshipped him, &c. while they then lived in your Churches, and did not as yet openly discover themselves; was God in no sense their God?
4ly, To whom Christ is a Head, to them God may be said to be a God: But Christ is the Head of the visible Church, in which are many unsound Members; Branches in him that bear no fruit, John 15.2. Then God in some sense is their God, if Christ may in some sense be their Head.