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Excerpt from The Baptism of Infants, a Reasonable Service: Founded Upon Scripture, and Undoubted Apostolic Tradition; In Which Its Moral Purposes and Use in Religion Are Shewn
Secondly. This we fee done, in the abra ham IC cit/pen/ation. For as god's covenant tranfaé'tions with Ahrahani were the foundation, or charter of the church, which, in after ages, he ih tended to gather, and to ereél amongi't men: {0° be, here, gives pious parents an exprefs pronii/é and revelation concermng their infants, He pro miles to be A god to Ahraham, and to his fled; and takes his infants into covenant, together with hirnhlf; commanding the token of the covenant to be {olemnly affixed to thern, as a {landing tc/z'iniony or fign that jehovah was their god. See Gen. Xvri. 7, 8, to, 1 1, 12, 14. God faid, I will e/iahlz/h niy covenant hetween me, and thee (abraham) and thy feed after thee, in their generations; to he a god to thee, and to thy feed after then - and I will he their Goo, {this is my covenant which ye jhali heap - every inanlchild among you, that is eight days old, [ha/l he circunzcifed. The uncircunrcifed man-child [hall he cut of from his people. Circumcilion then, by god's exprefs command, was afixed to Aihra ham's infants, and to the infants Of all fuch as believed in the god ofa'hrahani, as a token of his covenant; which covenant was, that jehova-h would he their god.
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