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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.
4. Chaff, Dross, Canaanites are no Spiritual Seed, yet such have been admitted into your Spiritual Church, by Dipping. ⟨p. 100⟩Mr. Hutcheson writes true and can testify it.
4. Chaff, Dross, Canaanites are no Spiritual Seed, yet such have been admitted into your Spiritual Church, by Dipping. ⟨p. 100⟩Mr. Hutcheson writes true and can testifie it.
5. Define a Church, and you shall find all the Causes in that Church [a difference only between a Church, and such a Church] take it in the strictest notion. 1. The efficient Cause is God, that is here. Deut. 7.6. Ezra 9.21. 3ly, The formal Cause joined in Covenant, with God and one with another, Deut. 29.12. Zech. 11.10, 14. Exod. 24.8. [Besides their Circumcision.] This some Brethren make the form of a Church: here it is. 4ly, Final Cause, To walk with God, and keep his Ordinances: it was here, Exod. 24.7. Mr. Baxter hath spoken so much to this, that I say no more.
5. Define a Church, and you shall find all the Causes in that Church [a difference only between a Church, and such a Church] take it in the strictest notion. 1. The efficient Cause is God, that is here. Deut. 7.6. Ezra 9.21. 3ly, The formal Cause joyned in Covenant, with God and one with another,