A41329:185
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.
If God hath repelled his Covenant, and cast the Seed of the believing Jews out of the Church, then it was either in justice or in mercy.
If God hath repeled his Covenant, and cast the Seed of the believing Jews out of the Church, then it was either in justice or in mercy.
But neither this nor that; therefore not cast out, &c. thus Mr. Baxter.
For the first, not in justice, I prove thus. Let Parents be never such sound Believers, walk in the steps of their Father Abraham, keep close in the Covenant, yet the Anabaptists cast out all their Seed; but this ⟨p. 58⟩cannot be in justice: for the Text saith, Psal. 25.10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his Covenant. But these Jews, believing Parents do so; yet God repeals his Covenant with their Seed, and cast them out of the Church.