A41329:164
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.
Though the Anabaptists strength lie in the incapacity of Infants to believe in Christ, yet because this notion hath been a trouble to me heretofore, therefore I speak the more to it.
5ly, This Covenant never repealed by God. Now I come to the Pinch: Mr. Tombs the greatest Adversary that ever the Seed of Believers had, yields two things.
5ly, This Covenant never repealed by God. Now I come to the Pinch: Mr. Tombes the greatest Adversary that ever the Seed of Believers had, yields two things.
1. That the Children of the Jews were Members with their Parents in the Jewish Church. [But then, say I, it must be by virtue of this Parental-Covenant God made with Abraham; else how they should be Members with their Parents, I know not.]
1. That the Children of the Jews were Members with their Parents in the Jewish Church. [But then, say I, it must be by vertue of this Parental-Covenant God made with Abraham; else how they should be Members with their Parents, I know not.]