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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
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Ans. Is there no way to be made Christ's, but by Calling? can he that made the Ear and the Heart, come no way to the Heart, but by the Ear? what Divinity is this? cannot he that infuses the Soul into the Body, infuse Grace into the Soul, but by the •ar?
2. Christ commands little Children to be brought to him, and none to forbid them. Mark 10.13, 14. &c. Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven, then they must be Christ's; we believe Christ, Sir, before you.
3. Because Isaac at eight days old, cannot answer a Call of Christ's, therefore he is none of Christ's, a good Argument. Was John none of Christ's, when he leaped in his Mothers Womb, when Mary came to Elizabeth? Luk. 1.44.
Argu. 3. His third Syllogism, If none be Blessed with Abraham, but those that are of Faith, than Infants are not the Seed of Abraham, but the Antecedent is true.