A41329:347
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.
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.
2ly, Then all the Children in Corinth, though the Parents were lawfully Married, were Bastards, before the Gospel came.
2ly, Then all the Children in Corinth, though the Parents were lawfully Marryed, were Bastards, before the Gospel came.
3ly, When then the Apostle writes to the Saints in Corinth. 1 Cor. 1, 2. 2 Cor. 1.1. the meaning is, to you that are Legitimate, and not Bastards in Corinth. What difference between [Greek or Hebrew] there, and [Greek or Hebrew] here? Neither ⟨p. 107⟩do your examples from [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] help you at all.