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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.
Ans. Two.
Qu. Which is the first?
Ans. Salvation.
What the second was he forgot that stood by, and showed the three last Questions, [the first two were another person's] and professed to my Father-in-law, when he came to have his Child baptized, That he answered him as well as he could. For want of Catechising and good Discipline in Church and State: Into what a miserable condition is this Nation fallen? That this hath helped on among these who are godly Anabaptists, I do not much doubt.
What the second was he forgot that stood by, and shewed the three last Questions, [the first two were another person's] and professed to my Father-in-law, when he came to have his Child baptized, That he answered him as well as he could. For want of Catechising and good Discipline in Church and State: Into what a miserable condition is this Nation fallen? That this hath helped on among these who are godly Anabaptists, I do not much doubt.