A41329:270
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.
the Covenant standing still in force, though God may please to change the Seal, and bring in another Seal under a new dispensation, yet God's former Command may well warrant us to administer the Sign ⟨p. 89⟩and Seal of the Covenant to Abraham's Seed, as before.
Sure I am, this express Command the Anabaptists require for Baptising Infants, will cast out the Lord's-Day, and Magistracy out of a Christian Common-wealth, Women from the Lord's Table; For though there were divers Women attended Christ, Luke 8.2, 3. yet there was not one of them with him at his Institution of the Lord's Supper: nor do we read expressly, that Women were at the Lord's Table in their Churches; For him that would prove it from the words, 1 Cor. 11.28. [Greek or Hebrew], there tell us, That [Greek or Hebrew] is of the Epicene Gender, and includes Male and Female.
Sure I am, this express Command the Anabaptists require for Baptising Infants, will cast out the Lord's-Day, and Magistracy out of a Christian Common-wealth, Women from the Lord's Table; For though there were divers Women attended Christ, Luke 8.2, 3. yet there was not one of them with him at his Institution of the Lord's Supper: nor do we read expresly, that Women were at the Lord's Table in their Churches; For him that would prove it from the words, 1 Cor. 11.28. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, there tell us, That 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is of the Epiceen Gender, and includes Male and Female.