A41329:337
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.
They to whom Promises do appertain, they are Church-Members.
But to the Children of Believing Parents Promises do appertain. Therefore,
The Major is plain, no Promise belong to any person out of the Visible Church. Ephes. 2.12. while the Ephesians were out of the Visible Church, they were Strangers from the Covenants of Promise. Rom. 9.4. the Promise did belong to the Jews, not to ⟨p. 104⟩us Gentiles, till grafted into Abraham's stock.
The Minor is proud from the words of the Apostle, The Promise is to you, and your Children, we are under the outward dispensation now; you nor your Children shall lose your Title to it, by Repenting and Believing, but then you shall feel the saving benefit added to pour outward Title. Again,