A41329:316
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.
My Author goes on; Circumcision initiated the carnal Seed into a carnal Church, and gave them right to carnal Ordinances: But Baptism was to give the spiritual Seed an orderly entrance into the spiritual Church.
Ans. 1. These Carnal Ordinances had their Spiritual significations as well as ours.
2. The Element in Baptism, Water; do but wash the flesh, and may be said to be Carnal too in some sense, 1 Pet. 3.21.
3. There was a Spiritual Seed admitted also into that Church by Circumcision, as well as now by Baptism, how many Saints were in that Church?
3. There was a Spiritual Seed admited also into that Church by Circumcision, as well as now by Baptism, how many Saints were in that Church?