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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
THE PLEA OF THE CHILDREN OF Believing-Parents, &c.THE PLEA OF THE CHILDREN OF Beleiving-Parents, &c.
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.
Quest. 2. If God hath repealed his Covenant, with the Believing Jews Seed, turned their Children out of the Church, and deny them Baptism, though the Jews truly Believe ⟨p. 119⟩in Christ come, what hath God left in the room of these, that carry any show of his Blessing, or good Will towards their Children, during their Infant State?
Quest. 2. If God hath repealed his Covenant, with the Believing Jews Seed, turned their Children out of the Church, and deny them Baptism, though the Jews truly Believe ⟨p. 119⟩in Christ come, what hath God left in the room of these, that carry any shew of his Blessing, or good Will towards their Children, during their Infant State?
As to their Internal and Eternal State, the Infants were in as good a State then, as now? Christ is Yesterday, to Day, and the same for ever, the Lamb slain for the Foundation of the World. Apoc. 13.8. But as to their visible State, how come they to be in the same condition, that we Gentiles, and our Children were in. Ephes. 2.12. Before Christ came, and we believed in him?
As to their Internall and Eternal State, the Infants were in as good a State then, as now? Christ is Yesterday, to Day, and the same for ever, the Lamb slain for the Foundation of the World. Apoc. 13.8. But as to their visible State, how come they to be in the same condition, that we Gentiles, and our Children were in. Ephes. 2.12. Before Christ came, and we believed in him?