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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.
2. Alas, poor Infants! by this Author ye are Cursed, no poor Infant dying an Infant, can be Blessed. Yea, those Infants whom Christ Blessed, Mark 10.16. were Cursed though he Blessed them, for they could not ⟨p. 78⟩Act Faith upon Christ. Did Isaac when Circumcised the eighth Day, put forth an Act of Faith upon Christ to come?
3. Believers in Christ are so, either Actually or Seminally.
3. Believers in Christ are so, either Actually or Siminally.
4. Actual Believers in Christ are so, either Visibly and Really, or Visibly only.
Visibly only, such were those, to whom in your Preface to your Baptised Congregations, you thus speak, they are not all Israel, that are of Israel. I know there is dross mingled with your Silver, Chaff among your Wheat, and the Canaanite is still in the Land. It seems then you find Dross, Chaff, Canaanites, and not true Israelites in your Baptised Congregations; but you did look on them as visible Believers, when you Dipped them.