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

And then it appears that the generation of the righteous, even from the womb, were enumerated to the rest, in that they are not mentioned as a people called out here and there, and initiated at age (there is no mention of any such thing:) but as a stock or generation opposed to the daughters of men, or of the unchurched, who were such from their infancy ⟨p. 120⟩as all will grant. For it was not the same men that were the Parents of those here called the daughters of men and the sons of God (though some of the later might be excommunicate when they fell:) But it plainly intimates, that it was another sort of men that these were the daughters of, than those that were Parents to the sons of God. So Ainsworth in loc. [The sons of God, i. e. the men of the Church of God, for to such Moses saith, Deut. 14.1, &c. 1 John 3.1. Daughters of men, meaning of Cains posterity that were out of Gods Church, Gen. 4.14.] So our Annotations, and many more.

An intimation of this privilege, and that they were sons of mercy and of the promise, appeareth in the very names of many of the children of the righteous, both before and after the flood, which I will not stand on particularly.

An intimation of this priviledge, and that they were sons of mercy and of the promise, appeareth in the very names of many of the children of the righteous, both before and after the flood, which I will not stand on particularly.

And when all the world had so defiled themselves, that God was resolved to cut them off; he spared Noah and his family or sons. Though Ham was to be cursed, yet was he of the Church which worshipped the true God, and spared as a son of Noah, and one of that society. And if God so far spared him then for his Fathers sake as to house him in the Ark (the type of the Church) he sure took him to be of the same society in his infancy, and then bare him the same favour on the same account.