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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.
9ly, This Covenant with Abraham and h• seed was signed and sealed, Gen. 17.9, 10, 11, 12. What Moses calls a Sign, or Token the Apostle Rom. 4.11. calls a Seal.
My Author tells me, Circumcision was • Seal to Abraham only, not to Believers, no• their seed. To Infants it was a sign put i•• their flesh, &c. too tedious to transcribe all.
A. You tell us, it sealed to Abraham only the Truth of that Promise, That in his see• all the Families should be blessed. But the same Promise was made to Isaac, Gen. 26.4. and to Jacob, Gen. 28.14. Did it not seal to them as well? Yea, the Apostle Peter, Acts 3.25. tells the Jews, they were children of the Covenant God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Did dot Circumcision seal this to them as well? The end of Seals is to confirm Faith: had not they, have not we need to have our Faith strengthened? Is the Anabaptists Faith so ⟨p. 47⟩strong, that they need no Seals?