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

As soon as Noah came out of the Ark God blessed himself in his issue, as he did Adam, with an [increase and multiply] and made a Covenant with him and his seed after him. Which ⟨p. 121⟩Covenant though the expressed part of it be that the earth should be drowned no more, and so it was made with the wickedst of Noah's seed, and even with the beasts of the field, yet doth it import a special favour to Noah and his seed, as one whom God would show a more special respect to, as he had done in his deliverance, and upon this special favour to him the creatures fare the better. For though the word [Covenant] be the same to man and beast, yet the diversity of the promissory and his capacity may put a different sense on the same word, as applied to each. And indeed it should seem but a sad blessing to Noah to hear an [increase and multiply] if all his Infant posterity must be cast or left out of the visible Church, and so left as common or unclean. This were to increase and multiply the Kingdom of the Devil. If he that was so mercifully housed in the Ark with all his children, must now be so blest as to have all their issue to be out of the Church, it were a strange change in God, and a strange blessing on Noah! And an uncomfortable stablishing of a Covenant with his seed, if all that seed must be so thrust from God and dealt with as the seed of cursed Cain.

As soon as Noah came out of the Ark God blessed himself in his issue, as he did Adam, with an [increase and multiply] and made a Covenant with him and his seed after him. Which ⟨p. 121⟩Covenant though the expressed part of it be that the earth should be drowned no more, and so it was made with the wickedst of Noahs seed, and even with the beasts of the field, yet doth it import a special favour to Noah and his seed, as one whom God would shew a more special respect to, as he had done in his deliverance, and upon this special favour to him the creatures fare the better. For though the word [Covenant] be the same to man and beast, yet the diversity of the promissary and his capacity may put a different sense on the same word, as applied to each. And indeed it should seem but a sad blessing to Noah to hear an [increase and multiply] if all his Infant posterity must be cast or left out of the visible Church, and so left as common or unclean. This were to encrease and multiply the Kingdom of the Devil. If he that was so mercifully housed in the Ark with all his children, must now be so blest as to have all their issue to be out of the Church, it were a strange change in God, and a strange blessing on Noah! And an uncomfortable stablishing of a Covenant with his seed, if all that seed must be so thrust from God and dealt with as the seed of cursed Cain.