An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 8. Infants interest in the very Covenant of Peculiarity, and Jewish Church-state, was not inseparable from Circumcision. As Infants were ever Members in the Common Church and Covenant of Grace with their Parents before Circumcision, so they were also without it Members of the Jewish Church, when as all the Females were Members, and all the Males in the Wilderness, who for Forty Years were Uncircumcised: Yet is it called, The Church in the Wilderness, when except very few at last it was an Uncircumcised Church, Acts 7. 38.

§. 8. Infants interest in the very Covenant of Peculiarity, and Iewish Church-state, was not infeparable from Circumcision. As Infants were ever Members in the Common Church and Covenant of Grace with their Parents before Circumcision, so they were also without it Members of the Iewish Church, when as all the Females were Members, and all the Males in the Wilderness, who for Forty Years were Uncircumcised: Yet is it called, The Church in the Wilderness, when except very few at last it was an Uncircumcised Church, Acts 7. 38.

§. 9. Much less did God lay such a necessity on the outward Sacramental Act, as to deny Salvation to the Uncircumcised aforesaid, as some would have us think that even under the Gospel he doth by Sacraments. The Covenant was still necessary as consented to by the Adult for themselves and their Infant ⟨p. 134⟩seed, but not alway the outward sacrament or symbol.

§. 9. Much less did God lay such a necessity on the outward Sacramental Act, as to deny Salvation to the Uncircumcised aforesaid, as some would have us think that even under the Gospel he doth by Sacraments. The Covenant was still necessary as consented to by the Adult for themselves and their Infant ⟨p. 134⟩