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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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5. Because this promise [I will be a God to thee and thy seed] doth not belong to Abraham & his seed as after the flesh, or as lineally descended of Abraham: but as believers, and this is most evident Rom. 11. wherein 'tis said of the Jews, 1. That they were broken off, (made no people, no Church) by unbelief, verse 20. 2. That by Faith they shall be grafted in again, verse 23. If therefore they were broken off the Church by unbelief, then they stood as members of the Church by Faith: and if by faith they should be grafted in, then they stood by faith at first: Again it is said in this Rom 11.28. that they are loved for the Fathers sakes, surely not as natural fathers, but as spiritual by faith: and hence Nehem. 9.8. it is expressly said, that God found Abraham faithful before him, and made a Covenant with him.
5. Because this promise [I will be a God to thee and thy seed] doth not belong to Abraham & his seed as after the flesh, or as lineally descended of Abraham: but as believers, and this is most evident Rom. 11. wherein 'tis said of the Jews, 1. That they were broken off, (made no people, no Church) by unbeliefe, verse 20. 2. That by Faith they shall be graffed in again, verse 23. If therefore they were broken off the Church by unbeliefe, then they stood as members of the Church by Faith: and if by faith they should be graffed in, then they stood by faith at first: Again it is said in this Rom 11.28. that they are loved for the Fathers sakes, surely not as natural fathers, but as spiritual by faith: and hence Nehem. 9.8. it is expressly said, that God found Abraham faithfull before him, and made a Covenant with him.