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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
THE PLEA OF THE CHILDREN OF Believing-Parents, &c.THE PLEA OF THE CHILDREN OF Beleiving-Parents, &c.
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.
I know Christians that lie under some Temptations, may, and do expect more from the Covenant, Promise, and Sacraments, than God intended, or the Scripture holds forth, they would make one Scripture contradict another: If God gives in but a little, and will suffer us to lie under our Temptations, but yet will supply us with so much from his Covenant, that we are able to hold up our hands in the day of ⟨p. 8⟩Battle: that our Hearts are kept close to him, and do not in the least depart from him; If we cannot get the fatted Calf, and Music, &c. Luke 15.23. [which some Christians have] if we can but get a Kid, and have a Father to own us at last, 'tis worth our Believing, Praying, and Writing.
I know Christians that lie under some Temptations, may, and do expect more from the Covenant, Promise, and Sacraments, than God intended, or the Scripture holds forth, they would make one Scripture contradict another: If God gives in but a little, and will suffer us to lie under our Temptations, but yet will supply us with so much from his Covenant, that we are able to hold up our hands in the day of ⟨p. 8⟩Battel: that our Hearts are kept close to him, and do not in the least depart from him; If we cannot get the fatted Calf, and Musick, &c. Luke 15.23. [which some Christians have] if we can but get a Kid, and have a Father to own us at last, 'tis worth our Beleiving, Praying, and Writing.
What it was that Woman [a noted Midwife I knew] expected to find at the Lords Supper, I know not, but it seems she found it not: whereupon she forsook the Lords Table, with this blasphemous Speech, A Man may find as much good by a Loaf in the Bakers Shop, as by the Bread in the Lords Supper, for she had been often there and could find no good. Hearing of this Speech, I inquired after her, by those who had been long acquainted with her [I know not whether I saw her after I heard it] they took her always for a civil Woman, but did not think she was acquainted with the work of Regeneration; but that made me to wonder the more, for such persons commonly take up their Priest in the work done, in above partaking of the Ordinance.