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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
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Leaving then the Historical part, by which Infant-baptism is much confirmed: Let us come to the holy Scriptures, out of which our Divines who have laboured in this Controversy, have produced so many, that I know not how more can be well added; where therefore others have been large, I will be brief.
Leaving then the Historieal part, by which Infant-baptism is much confirmed: Let us come to the holy Scriptures, out of which our Divines who have laboured in this Controversie, have produced so many, that I know not how more can be well added; where therefore others have been large, I will be brief.
One man I knew (though I had no inward acquaintance with him) about fifty years since, a Mechanic, and Head of a separate Company in those days; he had none but his Mother-tongue, but a very good head in Polemical Divinity. This Doctrine of Anti-paedobaptism then being propounded to him, he rejected, though he had other Arguments against it, yet I took notice of this: I observe (saith he) ever since God had a people upon the earth, he made a ⟨p. 32⟩difference between the families of his servants, and of wicked men, even before the flood, Gen. 6.2. There is not only truth, but strength in it, what-ever the Anabaptists scribble against it.
One man I knew (though I had no inward acquaintance with him) about fifty years since, a Mechanick, and Head of a separate Company in those days; he had none but his Mother-tongue, but a very good head in Polemical Divinity. This Doctrine of Anti-paedobaptism then being propounded to him, he rejected, though he had other Arguments against it, yet I took notice of this: I observe (saith he) ever since God had a people upon the earth, he made a ⟨p. 32⟩difference between the families of his servants, and of wicked men, even before the flood,