A41329:350
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.
For 1st. By an Antiphrasis, or Euphemismus, the words signifies the quite contrary, Bless, and Curse, Holy, and Unclean; [or Sodomite, as we Translate.]
For 1st. By an Antiphrasis, or Euphemismus, the words signifies the quite contrary, Bless, and Curse, Holy, and Ʋnclean; [or Sodomite, as we Translate.]
2ly, The words are so used in an opposite sense, in several other Scriptures, that prove one another.
3ly, The sense of the Text forces us so to render their signification.
1. But then you must Translate [Greek or Hebrew] by some word which is quite contrary to Holiness, so that one expel the other: Contraria sunt pellentis naturae, but Legitimacy and Holiness are not contraries in respect of this Subject, for he may be Legitimate and Holy too, I know: you must then read else were your Children unclean, but now they are unclean. This is good Sense.