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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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Argum. 4. Rom. 11.17. The Jews are cut off from the fatness of the Olive tree, and the Gentiles put in, or engrafted in their room: Now this Engrafting is not into Christ by saving faith, for it is impossible that such should ever be broken off, who are once in; it must therefore he meant of their engrafting into the external state of the visible Church, and the fatness and privileges thereof; of which Church Christ is the external and political head, into whom (in this respect) they are engrafted by external visible Fa••h […] Covenant. Hence thus I reason; That if the Jews and their […] were engrafted members of the Church, then the Gentile […] into the same state, and coming in their […] with their Children, members of the Church: when the Jews hereafter shall be […], they shall be engrafted in as they were before; them and their […] verse 23. In […] mean while, the Apostle put's no difference between the present engrafting of the Gentiles now, and of t•e•s past, or to come, and therefore they, and their seed are engrafted Members now.
Argum. 4. Rom. 11.17. The Iews are cut off from the fatness of the Olive tree, and the Gentiles put in, or ingraffed in their room: Now this Ingraffing is not into Christ by saving faith, for it is impossible that such should ever be broken off, who are once in; it must therefore he meant of their ingraffing into the external state of the visible Church, and the fatness and priviledges thereof; of which Church Christ is the external and political head, into whom (in this respect) they are ingraffed by external visible Fa••h 〈…〉 Covenant. Hence thus I reason; That if the Iews and their 〈…〉 were ingraffed members of the Church, then the Gentile 〈…〉 into the same state, and comming in their 〈…〉 with their Children, members of the Church: when the Jews hereafter shall be 〈…〉, they shall be ingraff•d in as they were before; them and their verse 23. In mean while, the Apostle put's no difference between the present ingraffing of the Gentiles now, and of tes past, or to come, and therfore they, and their seed are ingraffed Members now.