A41329:143
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.
5ly, Is there not an external and an internal Adoption? Rom. 9.4. to them pertained the Adoption: Were they not called God's children? Deut. 14.1. Is not God then the God of his children? Do not God say, They are mine? Ezek. 16.20, 21. and yet is God no way their God?
6ly, If the spiritual Seed be there only meant, then all the Israelites in the Land of Canaan were the spiritual Seed; which I answer is false. That they must be so according to your interpretation, the next Verse proves it; Gen. 17.7, 8, 9. At the 8th verse, I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee, the I and wherein thou art a stranger, all the Land of Canaan for an everlasting possession. And I will be their God: Thou shalt therefore keep my Covenant, thou and thy seed after thee in their generations. Can the Holy One speak plainer than he doth? Doth he not tell you, that that seed of Abraham which shall inherit the Land of Canaan [where his Tabernacle and all ⟨p. 44⟩his Instituted Worship was set up] and there kept the Seal of his Covenant, that he will be their God? Doth not God speak the same, Deut. 29.10, 11, 12, 13. to the men, women and children, who then entered into Covenant with God. That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself: And that he may be a God unto thee, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn to thy Fathers, &c.
6ly, If the spiritual Seed be there onely meant, then all the Israelites in the Land of Canaan were the spiritual Seed; which I answer is false. That they must be so according to your interpretation, the next Verse proves it;