A41329:175
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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Fourthly, God did expressly repeal his Covenant with Israel made at Mount Sinai, Heb. 8.13. That which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. This Covenant of God with Abraham and his Seed, is a Covenant much noted in the Scripture, and long before Sinai-Covenant: Now if the Lord doth indeed repeal this Covenant with Abraham, why should we not expect clear Scripture-ground. The Jews quarrelled with the Apostles, because they changed the Customs of Moses, Acts 6.14. & chap. 21. v. 21. but if they had taught the nulling of the Covenant of God with Abraham their Father too, the Apostles should have heard of it with both ears, and we should have read it. God tells them when he repealed that Covenant, He would make a new Covenant with the House of Israel, and the House of Judah: are not Children a part of the House? They were so when God made ⟨p. 55⟩that Covenant with the House of Israel, Deut. 29.10, 11, 12. then they are in the House still, then they are capable of the Grace of the new Covenant with their Parents; then the want of actual Faith doth not exclude them from Baptism.
Fourthly, God did expresly repeal his Covenant with Israel made at Mount Sinai, Heb. 8.13. That which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. This Covenant of God with Abraham and his Seed, is a Covenant much noted in the Scripture, and long before Sinai-Covenant: Now if the Lord doth indeed repeal this Covenant with Abraham, why should we not expect clear Scripture-ground. The Jews quarrelled with the Apostles, because they changed the Customs of Moses, Acts 6.14. & chap. 21. v. 21. but if they had taught the nulling of the Covenant of God with Abraham their Father too, the Apostles should have heard of it with both ears, and we should have read it. God tells them when he repealed that Covenant, He would make a new Covenant with the House of Israel, and the House of Judah: are not Children a part of the House? They were so when God made ⟨p. 55⟩