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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.
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.
2. In mercy the Lord doth it not; For then God gives a greater mercy in the room of that which in mercy he takes away, saith Mr. Baxter.
This is true what Mr. Baxter saith, I prove what he saith, the believing Jew shall say, though God hath repealed his Covenant with my Seed, and cast them out of the Church, yet he hath given my Seed a better mercy, both my self and my children, if they could speak, would say, We would not be under Abraham's Covenant with our Parents, nor Church-Members with our Parents, as we were before Christ came, for Christ hath left us Infants a better Blessing in the room. As it was a great favour to the Israelites, that God gave his Oracles to them, Psalm 147.19, 28. That God was in Covenant with them, Ephes. 2.12. But God will null that Covenant, Heb. 8.13. It shall vanish away: But God will make another Covenant, new, a better Covenant, having better Promises in the room of that old vanishing Covenant: So that if Israels eyes be opened, they would say, they would by no