A85311:117
The answer of Giles Firmin, to the vain and unprofitable question put to him,…
The answer of Giles Firmin, to the vain and unprofitable question put to him, and charged upon him by Mr. Grantham, in his book, entitled, The infants advocate : viz. whether the greatest part of dying infants shall be damned? : Which advocate, while he shuts all infants out of the visible church, and denies them baptism, opens heaven to all dying infants, justifying those of his party, who admit them all as he doth, into Heaven without regeneration.The answer of Giles Firmin, to the vain and unprofitable question put to him, and charged upon him by Mr. Grantham, in his book, entituled, The infants advocate : viz. whether the greatest part of dying infants shall be damned? : Which advocate, while he shuts all infants out of the visible church, and denies them baptism, opens heaven to all dying infants, justifying those of his party, who admit them all as he doth, into Heaven without regeneration.
London: printed for John Lawrence, 1689
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As for Noah, about whom you spend so many lines, we honour him as much as you: But do you show where God made such a Covenant with him and his Seed, as he did with Abraham and his Seed, and sealed it. So that Noah's Seed might humbly and believingly lay hold upon God for their God, by way of Covenant; else all your words about Noah, are but your rambling from the Question, a mere Ignoratio Elenchi, as I told you before.
As for Noah, about whom you spend so many lines, we honour him as much as you: But do you shew where God made such a Covenant with him and his Seed, as he did with Abraham and his Seed, and sealed it. So that Noah's Seed might humbly and believingly lay hold upon God for their God, by way of Covenant; else all your words about Noah, are but your rambling from the Question, a meer Ignoratio Elenchi, as I told you before.
Then you scribble something about Free-will, and tell me of Mr. Baxter's Judgment: I am of his Opinion, I will not enter into that Controversy; only two things I say.
Then you scribble something about Free-will, and tell me of Mr. Baxter's Judgment: I am of his Opinion, I will not enter into that Controversie; only two things I say.
First, Liberty as it is opposed to natural necessity, and co-action is essential to the Will. In the work of the Father drawing the Soul to Christ, the Will in closing with, and embracing of Christ is as free in respect of Co-action, as it was in sinning against Christ. What would you have more Mr. Grantham?