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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.
Sir, you must give me better grounds than these, or else I must still be of the opinion of the great body of the most learned and pious Divines; viz. That all the Sacraments of the Old and New Testament, were and are Signs of the Covenant, sealing up the Grace of God to Believers. My Author ⟨p. 48⟩hath more Notions about Circumcision: but of them afterwards.
In the Child, Circumcision left a signal Impression, saith he.
A. 1. That which you call a signal Impression, God calls his Covenant. But
2ly, Though there were a signal Impression left in the Infant, yet if when it came to years it were not taught the spiritual meaning of it, the Child would get no benefit by it.