A41329:368
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.
Here a Question falls in, which I never did so much as think of, till now I say Mr. Mode, That Water in Baptism, he saith, hath no respect to the blood of Christ; that it doth concur in the Mystery by way of efficacy and merit, he grants, but not as the thing there figured, for that is the Spirit? This may help as to the manner of Baptising.
I thought both Spirit and Blood, he denies the latter, and saith the Church of England doth so also, as he thinks.
The Question is new to me, I shall hardly propound my thoughts.
1. If cleansing of the Soul from Sin be the thing Baptism holds out, then, what doth primarily, properly, and effectually cleanse, is there signified, but the Antecedent is true: Cleansing is as much given to the Blood of Christ, as to the Spirit. 1 Joh. 1.7. Apoc. 1.5.