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§. 7. And if any will feign another Covenant for Infants, let him show what and where it is; for I know but one Covenant of grace, which taketh in the Infants with the Authorized Parents, whose members or Own God taketh them to be, and requireth a positive believing consent and dedication to God, as the positive condition: which is more than a Negative (non ponere obicem,) though performed by the Parent for the child: And so the promises throughout the Scripture run to the faithful and their seed.

§. 7. And if any will feign another Covenant for Infants, let him shew what and where it is; for I know but one Covenant of grace, which taketh in the Infants with the Authorized Parents, whose members or Own God taketh them to be, and requireth a positive believing consent and dedication to God, as the positive condition: which is more than a Negative (non ponere obicem,) though performed by the Parent for the child: And so the promises throughout the Scripture run to the faithful and their seed.

§. 8. I know that God promiseth to bless children through many generations, for their faithful Ancestors sake: But that is on supposition that fidelity continue in the line, and that apostasy make no intercision. Else all should be blessed for the sake of Noah, even Ham's posterity as well as Shem's.

§. 8. I know that God promiseth to bless children through many generations, for their faithful Ancestors sake: But that is on supposition that fidelity continue in the line, and that apostasie make no intercision. Else all should be blessed for the sake of Noe, even Cham's posterity as well as Shem's.

§. 9. What then is the thing made necessary (and sufficient) by the Covenant to their salvation, but that they be the seed of the faithful devoted by them to God, that is, that their