A41329:387
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.
To conclude, though I was moved to publish my Notes by some Friends, yet had I not received this Challenge, (for so I may call it) by this Letter, I think I should never have done it, because I knew Men far more able than my self, had done more service, than I could do in the Controversy.
To conclude, though I was moved to publish my Notes by some Friends, yet had I not received this Challenge, (for so I may call it) by this Letter, I think I should never have done it, because I knew Men far more able than my self, had done more service, than I could do in the Controversie.
I wish the Anabaptists, before they had Condemned, and wrote against Infant-baptism, had well studied, and well improved their Parental, and Infant-baptismal Covenant, followed God close for the benefits, and waited, though they found temptations, and did not meet with all they would, and reproved others for neglecting, and vigorously stirred up people to the serious improvement of them; Then had they ⟨p. 181⟩done good service to Christ and his Church: Whereas by the course they have taken, they have increased our Divisions, (a thing deeply to be lamented) which I shall never live to see healed.
I wish the Anabaptists, before they had Condemned, and wrote against Infant-baptism, had well studyed, and well improved their Parental, and Infant-baptismal Covenant, followed God close for the benefits, and waited, though they found temptations, and did not meet with all they would, and reproved others for neglecting, and vigorously stirred up people to the serious improvement of them; Then had they ⟨p. 181⟩done good service to Christ and his Church: Whereas by the course they have taken, they have increased our Divisions, (a thing deeply to be lamented) which I shall never live to see healed.