The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

IF God be the God of Abraham and of his seed, Gen. 17. therefore every male child shall be entered in the Covenant, by the ⟨p. 96⟩initial seal of Circumcision, and so women also who eat the Passover, which the uncircumcised might not do: and Peter was sent to the Circumcision, that is, to all the Jews men and women, and so the women is some way in the men, and they might be circumcised in them upon the same ground, because the same promise is made to fathers and to children,¹ must infants be baptized, Acts 2.39. 1. This is the Lords own Argument, Gen. 17.7. there were multitudes of differences between Circumcision and Baptism as we grant, but in the substance nature and Theological essence, and in the formal effects they are the same. We grant that Christ revealed in Types, Sacrifices, to come, darkly offered may differ from Christ as clearly offered Preached without these already abolished shadows and who is now come. Yet he is the same Saviour to them who believed in him then and now, Act. 10.43. Act. 15.11. And we 2. argue not simply from the letter of the Covenant. I am your God. Ergo, be baptized, for one might reply. I am your God. Ergo, offer such beasts to me, it shall not follow, But I am your God, and the God of your seed offering to you the same Christ and righteousness that was offered to Abraham in the same Covenant: Ergo, all of you be baptized who are under the same Covenant. For,

IF God be the God of Abraham and of his seed, Gen. 17. therefore every male child shall be entered in the Covenant, by the ⟨p. 96⟩initiall seal of Circumcision, and so women also who eat the Passeover, which the uncircumcised might not do: and Peter was sent to the Circumcision, that is, to all the Jews men and women, and so the women is some way in the men, and they might be circumcised in them upon the same gound, because the same promise is made to fathers and to children,