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The church-membership of children, and their right to baptism according to that holy and…The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme according to that holy and…
The church-membership of children, and their right to baptism according to that holy and everlasting covenant of God, established between Himself and the faithful ... cleared up in a letter, sent unto a worthy friend of the author ... / by Thomas Shepard ...The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme according to that holy and everlasting covenant of God, established between Himself and the faithfull ... cleared up in a letter, sent unto a worthy friend of the author ... / by Thomas Shepard ...
Cambridge: printed by Samuel Green, 1663Cambridg: printed by Samuel Green, 1663
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4. Because when God reneweth his promise and Covenant made with Abraham, with his people at the plains of Moab, Deut. 30.6. it run's in these words, viz: I will Circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, now this is a Gospel privilege, and a Gospel-Covenant: as appears by comparing this text with Rom. 10.8. wherein the righteousness of faith, or the Gospel, is brought in speaking the words of this Covenant, saying the word is nigh thee, in thy heart & mouth, Deut. 30.11, 12, 13, 14. Now if that place, Gen. 17.7. should be said to be obscure concerning the promise [I will be a God to thy seed] yet here in this place God speak's plainly, which by comparing the scriptures is a Gospel promise, and of a Gospel privilege and therefore to be preached by Ministers of the Gospel, and to be believed by the professors of it.
4. Because when God reneweth his promise and Covenant made with Abraham, with his people at the plaines of Moab, Deut. 30.6. it run's in these words, viz: I will Circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, now this is a Gospel priviledg, and a Gospel-Covenant: as appeares by comparing this text with Rom. 10.8. wherin the righteousness of faith, or the Gospel, is brought in speaking the words of this Covenant, saying the word is nigh thee, in thy heart & mouth, Deut. 30.11, 12, 13, 14. Now if that place, Gen. 17.7. should be said to be obscure concerning the promise [I will be a God to thy seed] yet here in this place God speak's plainly, which by comparing the scriptures is a Gospel promise, and of a Gospel priviledge and therefore to be preach't by Ministers of the Gospel, and to be believed by the professors of it.