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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
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Quest. When the Jews believed in Christ, come, crucified, risen, and ascended, as the five thousand in Acts 4.4. Did the Lord now repeal his Covenant which he made with ⟨p. 52⟩Abraham and his Seed; admit only the Parents into the Gospel-Church, but bar the Doors against their Posterity, or Children?
I think I have stated the Question right, and if this cannot be proved, then I hope believing Gentiles shall find a way to bring in their Children too with the Jews, and find a Title to Baptism by Mr. Tombs's Concession.
I think I have stated the Question right, and if this cannot be proved, then I hope believing Gentiles shall find a way to bring in their Children too with the Jews, and find a Title to Baptism by Mr. Tombes's Concession.
Affirmanti incumbit probatio; This lie upon the Anabaptists to prove. And here though I am far from that absurd, irrational Principle of Veronius, who lays down this for a Rule in our Disputation with the Papists; That we must bring express Scriptures to confute them, yet this casting all the Posterity of the Godly out of the Church, is so wretched a Doctrine, [as Mr. Thomas Hooker calls it] against the poor Infants, that as yet want a Tongue to plead for themselves, that the Anabaptists must bring Scriptures, if not express, yet as clear and strong as express Scriptures, else I shall little regard their Writings. And this I require upon these grounds.