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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. 5. Because there is •he same inward cause, moving God to take in the Children […] believing Church-members into the Church, and Covenant now, to be of the number of his people, as there was for •aking the Jews and their children: for the only cause why the Lord took in the Jews and their Children thus, was […] Love, and f••e grace, and mercy De•. 4.37. because […] L•ved thy fathers, therefore •• cross t••ir seed, which choosing is not by eternal Election or choosing to gl••y, for many of their ••ed never came to Glory; but unto this privilege to be his people above all others, in outward Covenant with him; which is exceeding great Love, if you Remember what hath been said of the b•anches of this outward Covenant, and visible Church estate. And hence •eu. 10.15. •e u• the Lord had •••light in thy fathers, hence he chose their seed above all people, as at that day, viz. to ⟨p. 11⟩be his people •• so that I do from hence fully believe, that either God's love is in these days of his Gospel less unto his people; and servants, then in the days of the old Testament, or if it be as great, that then the same Love respects the seed of his people now as then it did. And therefore, if then, because he loved them, he chose their seed, to be of his Church; so in these days, because he loveth us, he chooseth our seed, to be of his Church also.
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