A41329:201
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.
While I was thus troubled about making out these qualifications, there comes a motion into my mind; What say you to your Father's Covenant? You know your Parents were godly, and God promised to be the God of Abraham and his seed; will you stand to your Father's Covenant, and choose your Father's God for your God? I began to think of it, my heart answered, Yes, I will stand to my Father's Covenant: But how do you take your Father's God to be your God? I answered, As he was my Father's God. My teaching •od, my heart-humbling ⟨p. 65⟩God, my reconciled God, my justifying God, my sanctifying God, my God to lead me all my days; for thus he was my Father's God. Here my qualification was the choice of my Father's God, who was mine before by an external Covenant-administration; but now to have him my God, my portion, by an internal Covenant and efficacy? Here now I was pent up; Will you choose him, or refuse him? Blessed be God who gave me this advantage to lay hold upon him, by virtue of this Parental-Covenant.
Further, to clear my meaning, I do not by this Discourse about Qualifications of Promises, intend that Christians should not regard them. I am far from that: if they be sound Christians, I'll warrant them they shall regard them. Nor do I think but Christians reflecting upon themselves, the good Spirit assisting, may find them certainly wrought.
Further, to clear my meaning, Ido not by this Discourse about Qualifications of Promises, intend that Christians should not regard them. I am far from that: if they be sound Christians, I'le warrant them they shall regard them. Nor do I think but Christians reflecting upon themselves, the good Spirit assisting, may find them certainly wrought.