Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient…Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient…

And indeed in this very respect the Gospel-Covenant is not according to the old, as the Lord said it should not be, as well as in divers other cases: For many of those who were in the old Covenant (to which Circumcision did appertain) were Infants, though all of them were not taken in by Circumcision; for Female Infants were received into that old Covenant without it. Now these Children who were taken into Covenant, did not know the Lord: Infants having no Understanding, know not their Right hand from their Left, it is therefore impossible they should know the Lord; and therefore there was a necessity, after they were in that Covenant, that they should be taught to know the Lord: First, That God is, and what a God he is, and so to know him as to fear him, and serve him in Sincerity.

And indeed in this very respect the Gospel-Covenant is not according to the old, as the Lord said it should not be, as well as in divers other cases: For many of those who were in the old Covenant (to which Circumcision did appertain) were Infants, though all of them were not taken in by Circumcision; for Female Infants were received into that old Covenant without it. Now these Children who were taken into Covenant, did not know the Lord: Infants having no Understanding, know not their Righthand from their Left, it is therefore impossible they should know the Lord; and therefore there was a necessity, after they were in that Covenant, that they should be taught to know the Lord: First, That God is, and what a God he is, and so to know him as to fear him, and serve him in Sincerity.

But in the Gospel-Covenant God promised it should be otherwise, all who were received into that Covenant should be Adult Persons, or such who did know the Lord: which plainly implies no ignorant Infant should be taken into that Covenant, and be a Member of that Church-State; for it ⟨p. 54⟩so, then it would follow, such would have the like need to be taught to know the Lord, as they had in the old Covenant Church State. And remarkable it is, that this Text doth clearly intimate, that all who should be taken into the Gospel-Covenant, or Gospel-Church, should be discipled or taught, first to know God; for to be taught or discipled is all one and the same thing, which agrees with Christ's great Commission,