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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE ANSWER TO HIS PREFACE.
THE Preface is more considerable than his whole Book, there being something in it which concerns our Practice. In it he justifies himself in his scoffing at me, for the experience I have found of the benefit of Abraham's, and my Baptismal Covenant when an Infant. Let the Reader take it shortly thus:
The Covenant I mention is, as I said, that Covenant which God made with our Father Abraham, and his Seed, 17 Gen. 7. which Covenant holds *still with Believers and their Seed, and shall hold so long as there are Believers in Christ [Abraham's Seed, 3 Gal. 29.] upon Earth; unless the Anabaptists can show us where God hath expressly Repealed that Covenant, as he hath done other Covenants. To which I have spoken†.
The Covenant I mention is, as I said, that Covenant which God made with our Father Abraham, and his Seed, 17 Gen. 7. which Covenant holds *still with Believers and their Seed, and shall hold so long as there are Believers in Christ [Abraham's Seed, 3 Gal. 29.] upon Earth; unless the Anabaptists can shew us where God hath expresly Repealed that Covenant, as he hath done other Covenants. To which I have spoken