An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 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⟩seed, but not alway the outward sacrament or symbole.

§. 10. The gathering of Israel into a Policy by Moses, as a Theocracy, and their receiving a Law from God himself as a Political Body, was but the full Establishment of the Covenant of Peculiarity, in performance of what God had promised to Abraham, and in Circumcision had begun.

§. 11. This Law of Moses therefore must be Considered as an Affix or Appendix to the Common Law of Grace, and so either as related to it, or as considered simply and distinctly in it self without that relation. And as it was a Divine Political Law, for the Government of a Republic as such.

§. 11. This Law of Moses therefore must be Considered as an Affix or Appendix to the Common Law of Grace, and so either as related to it, or as considered simply and distinctly in it self without that relation. And as it was a Divine Political Law, for the Government of a Republick as such.