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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.
SECT. VI.
TO return to my Author: His Sixth Question is, Whether Baptism did succeed in the room and use of Circumcision? He saith, By no means.
But the Body of our Learned and Pious Divines say, It doth, and our Divines ⟨p. 97⟩have spoken to it so often, that I am loath to say any thing to it. Shortly my thoughts were these:
1. Circumcision came in upon Faith: Abraham believed, then he was Circumcised: And so doth Baptism.
2. Circumcision did sign Christ to come in the flesh. So saith my Author; and Baptism signs he is come in the flesh.