A41329:224
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
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But if this be granted, then this Verse and the fourteenth Verse are both true; now the Blessing of Abraham is come upon the Gentiles through Jesus Christ.
I have insisted long upon this Branch, ⟨p. 74⟩because the pinch of the Controversy lies here, and these Grounds are to me so strong, that unless the Anabaptists bring Texts as strong as an express Scripture for the Repeal, I shall not regard them: nor am I come yet to the Texts in the New Testament, to prove the Church-Membership of Infants, though it may be inferred from some I have named already.
I have insisted long upon this Branch, ⟨p. 74⟩because the pinch of the Controversie lies here, and these Grounds are to me so strong, that unless the Anabaptists bring Texts as strong as an express Scripture for the Repeal, I shall not regard them: nor am I come yet to the Texts in the New Testament, to prove the Church-Membership of Infants, though it may be inferred from some I have named already.
The last Branch in the Syllogism is, That if this Gracious Covenant be not Repealed but stand firm, then it must be Signed, and Sealed to them who are under it; this I suppose will not be denied. The Blessed God makes no Covenants, but he Seals them.
The last Branch in the Sillogism is, That if this Gracious Covenant be not Repealed but stand firm, then it must be Signed, and Sealed to them who are under it; this I suppose will not be denyed. The Blessed God makes no Covenants, but he Seals them.