More proofs of infants church-membership and consequently their right to baptism, or, A second…

Experience of the fulfilling of this promise or covenant, proves the difference before mentioned. And it is well known, 1. That Moses is so concise in the History of these matters. 2. And that the mystery of grace was to be opened by degrees, and so but darkly at the first, that it is no wonder if we find the whole sum of the Gospel here couched up in so narrow a room, and if each particular be not largely laid open before our eyes. 7. That we may certainly know that this promise speaks not only of the enmity that Christ himself should have to Satan, and doth not engage a General without an army, God doth here expressly mention the woman her self, saying [I will put enmity between thee and the woman] so that as she stood in a threefold respect; she is here her self possessed with this threefold enmity. 1. As she is the root of humane nature, from whence all mankind […], she is possest with the natural enmity […] diabolical nature, and this to be naturally conveyed or propagated. 2. As she was the root of the great Republic of the world, or that rational society which God as Rector would sapientially govern, and her self with her husband (who no doubt was also included in the promise) were the whole then existent race of mankind, so did she receive a legal enmity of obligation, which she was traditionally to deliver down to all her posterity, being her self hereby obliged to list her self and all her Infant progeny in the Redeemers army, against the proclaimed enemy, and to teach her posterity to do the like: For thus obligatory precepts must ⟨p. 95⟩be brought down. 3. As she was one of the chosen favourites of God, she received the habitual enmity of sanctification: And this is not in her power to propagate, though she may use some means that are appointed thereto, and whether a promise of any such thing be made to her seed on the use of such means, I will not now stand to discuss. 8. It is not all that are possessed with the natural enmity against the Devil himself that are the Church of Christ: For this is but a common preparative which is in all: Nor is it all that are obliged to the further enmity against the works of Satan: But all that on that obligation are duly listed in Christs army against Satan (by the obliged person) are visible members:

Experience of the fulfilling of this promise or covenant, proves the difference before mentioned. And it is well known, 1. That Moses is so concise in the History of these matters. 2. And that the mysterie of grace was to be opened by degrees, and so but darkly at the first, that it is no wonder if we find the whole summ of the Gospel here coucht up in so narrow a room, and if each particular be not largely laid open before our eyes. 7. That we may certainly know that this promise speaks not only of the enmity that Christ himself should have to Satan, and doth not engage a General without an army, God doth here expresly mention the woman her self, saying [I will put enmity between thee and the woman] so that as she stood in a threefold respect; she is here her self possessed with this threefold enmity. 1. As she is the root of humane nature, from whence all mankind , she is possest with the natural enmity diabolical nature, and this to be naturally conveyed or propagated. 2. As she was the root of the great Republick of the world, or that rational society which God as Rector would sapientially govern, and her self with her husband (who no doubt was also included in the promise) were the whole then existent race of mankind, so did she receive a legal enmity of obligation, which she was traditionally to deliver down to all her posterity, being her self hereby obliged to list her self and all her Infant progeny in the Redeemers army, against the proclaimed enemy, and to teach her posterity to do the like: For thus obligatory precepts must