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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.
Per absurdum vero est, ut per Messiae adventum imminutum sit foedus sanctu, Vossius. Gen. 17.7. That the blessed, and blessing, Messiah, by his coming, should null the Covenant with Abraham, it is not only absurd, but very absurd, a great reproach is cast upon Christ.
Per absurdum vero est, ut per Messiae adventum imminutum sit foedus sanctu, Vossius. Gen. 17.7. That the blessed, and blessing, Messia, by his coming, should null the Covenant with Abraham, it is not only absurd, but very absurd, a great reproach is cast upon Christ.
Doctor Thomas Goodwin pleading the Infant's case against the Anabaptists, saith, In a manner half the Church of God, the purest part of it; Elect Infants die in their bud and infancy, and grow not up to partake of the dews and influence of any other outward Ordinance; and were they deprived of this, [i.e. Baptism] should go out of this world [into which God only sent them to receive that which should make them meet for the common Inheritance of the Saints] without any outward owning them, or visible way of blessing from him, &c.—yea and the other half that grow up to glorify God in their riper years, whereof many also are holy from the Womb; these also should, during their years of nonage, want an outward badge, and any outward acknowledgement of what they are, even Fellow heirs of the Kingdom with their Brethren, which even in the Infancy of the World, whilst all were under Tutors and Governors ⟨p. 62⟩was their privilege. Thus this Gospel-Divine speaks, and that to the purpose.
Doctor Thomas Goodwin pleading the Infant's case against the Anabaptists, saith, In a manner half the Church of God, the purest part of it; Elect Infants die in their bud and infancy, and grow not up to partake of the dews and influence of any other outward Ordinance; and were they deprived of this, [i.e. Baptism] should go out of this world [into which God only sent them to receive that which should make them meet for the common Inheritance of the Saints] without any outward owning them, or visible way of blessing from him, &c.—yea and the other half that grow up to glorifie God in their riper years, whereof many also are holy from the Womb; these also should, during their years of nonage, want an outward badg, and any outward acknowledgment of what they are, even Fellowheirs of the Kingdom with their Brethren, which even in the Infancy of the World, whilst all were under Tutors and Governours