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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.
9. There is so much evil in this Doctrine and Practice of the Anabaptists, that we must have clearer Scriptures than ever were produced as yet to prove it, and clear it from that evil.
As 1. For the blessed God; How doth […] dishonour him in straitening his Love and Grace now under the Gospel, over it was under the Law. Moses tells the Jews, Deut. 4.37. The Lord loved thy Fathers, Chap. 7.8. & chap. 33.3. So it appears, that he would not only take the Fathers, but their Children also into Covenant, and constitute his Church of them also. But now whatever the Gospel saith of the Philanthropy of God, Tit. 3.4. and God so loving the world, Joh. 16.3. when that Seed promised to Abraham is come, in whom all Nations shall be blessed, he nulls the Covenant with his Seed, cast them out of the Church, and leaves no blessing for their ⟨p. 60⟩Infants, when their Parents believe in the promised Seed come.
As 1. For the blessed God; How doth 〈…〉 dishonour him in straitning his Love and Grace now under the Gospel, over it was under the Law. Moses tells the Jews, Deut. 4.37. The Lord loved thy Fathers, Chap. 7.8. & chap. 33.3. So it appears, that he would not only take the Fathers, but their Children also into Covenant, and constitute his Church of them also. But now whatever the Gospel saith of the Philanthropie of God, Tit. 3.4. and God so loving the world, Joh. 16.3. when that Seed promised to Abraham is come, in whom all Nations shall be blessed, he nulls the Covenant with his Seed, cast them out of the Church, and leaves no blessing for their