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

But one of the blessings was, that their Infants should be comprehended in the same Church and Covenant, Ergo, the Infants of the faithful who are the heirs of the same promise, must be comprehended in it too.

9. I think it is not to be made light of as to this matter, that in the great promise, Gen. 12.3. the blessing from Abraham in Christ is promised to all the families or tribes on earth, all the families of the earth shall be blessed, as the Heb. Samar. Arabic. or all the kindreds as the vulgar Lat. and Chald. paraph. or all the tribes as the ⟨p. 127⟩Sept. [Greek or Hebrew]. And doubtless it is by Christ that this blessing is promised, and so a Gospel blessing (Ergo, the Syriac. adds and in thy seed, and the Arab. hath by thee.) And the Apostle fully testifieth that. So that as tribes, kindreds, families, do most certainly comprehend the Infants, and as it was to such families that the promise was made before Christ as to the Jewish Church, so is it expressly to such families or tribes that the promise is made as to the Gentiles since Christ.

9. I think it is not to be made light of as to this matter, that in the great promise, Gen. 12.3. the blessing from Abraham in Christ is promised to all the families or tribes on earth, all the families of the earth shall be blessed, as the Heb. Samar. Arabic. or all the kindreds as the vulgar Lat. and Chald. paraph. or all the tribes as the ⟨p. 127⟩Sept. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. And doubtless it is by Christ that this blessing is promised, and so a Gospel blessing (Ergo, the Syriac. adds and in thy seed, and the Arab. hath by thee.) And the Apostle fully testifieth that. So that as tribes, kindreds, families, do most certainly comprehend the Infants, and as it was to such families that the promise was made before Christ as to the Jewish Church, so is it expresly to such families or tribes that the promise is made as to the Gentiles since Christ.