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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.
Hence Ambrose speaking of Baptism— Ideoqque legisti, quod tres Testes in Baptismate unum sunt, aqua, sanguis; & spiritusqui si unum horum detrahas, non stat Baptismatis Sacramentum: quid enim est aqua sine cruce Christi? [Deris qui c. 4.]
Hence Luther, Baptizari nihil aliud est quum reseo illo, & precioso sanguine Christi, lanari, & mundari.
Res significata in Baptismo est sanguis Christi. Walaeu. to. 1. p. 84. I could produce more Authors.
The Application of the Blood of Christ, and the renewing of the Spirit, without both which our State cannot be happy, I think may both be signified, and these either by Dipping, or powering of Water: The sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus [set out of old by the Ceremonial sprinkling] is a famous Sentence in the Gospel. Heb. 12.24. and 1 Pet. 1.2. so the powering out of the Spirit,