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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.
That there can be Regeneration without the Spirit, no Christian will affirm. That there can be a Heavenly Inheritance without Regeneration the Scripture denies. That the Spirit of God cannot Regenerate an Infant, he must be a strange Christian, [if any at all] who dares say it. If John ⟨p. 106⟩was filled with the Spirit, from his Mothers Womb, God can give his Spirit to other Infants, though in a less measure.
As to the Text 1 Cor. 7.14. that Text hath been so cleared by our Divines, that I wonder my Author should not be satisfied, but to come up with his Legitimacy, as if that were the sense of Children being Holy. When as
As to the Text 1 Cor. 7.14. that Text hath been so cleared by our Divines, that I wonder my Author should not be fatisfied, but to come up with his Ligitimacy, as if that were the sense of Children being Holy. When as
1st. The Apostle is not writing to a Corinthian Husband, that had two Wives, but only one Wife; as 12, 13, 14. v. so that if that Text, Mat. 2.15. could be brought to prove a Matrimonial-Holiness, then they were Holy, and Children Holy, before the Gospel came; but this is a Holiness arising from one of the Parents, being a Believer: Besides, Joseph, Benjamin, Solomon, and divers others, were never called Bastards, or thought to be so, though Jacob and David had more Wives then one.