A41329:225
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.
SECT. IV.
Now let us come to the Anabaptists, and hear how they prove the Repealing of the Covenant, and the un-Churching of the Children of Believing Jews.
NOw let us come to the Anabaptists, and hear how they prove the Repealing of the Covenant, and the un-Churching of the Children of Believing Jews.
About a quarter of a year after I had finished my Discourse, a Neighbour brought me Mr. Edward Hutchinson against Paedobaptism, to read it, but it was sent for again, so that I did but read his Epistle to the Baptized Congregations; and a Letter, which I think concerned Mr. Wills, and the beginning of his Book, p. 3. he states the Question, and proves, That the Infants of Believing Gentiles are not the Seed of Abraham; so that Infant Church-Membership and Baptism falls to the Ground.
About a quarter of a year after I had finished my Discourse, a Neighbour brought me Mr. Edward Hutchinson against Paedopabtism, to read it, but it was sent for again, so that I did but read his Epistle to the Baptized Congregations; and a Letter, which I think concerned Mr. Wills, and the beginning of his Book, p. 3. he states the Question, and proves, That the Infants of Believing Gentiles are not the Seed of Abraham; so that Infant Church-Membership and Baptism falls to the Ground.