A41329:306
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.
3. Circumcision did signify [you may say Seal] the Righteousness of Faith: So doth Baptism.
3. Circumcision did signifie [you may say Seal] the Righteousness of Faith: So doth Baptism.
4. Circumcision signified Sanctification: so do Baptism.
5. Circumcision signified and sealed the Covenant between God and the Seed of Abraham, Gen. 17.7, 8, 9, 10, 11. So doth Baptism.
6. Circumcision did oblige Israel to walk with God: so Baptism obligeth us.