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

Cobbet well sayeth, a faith grounded upon a possibility of Election separated from the Covenant, that is secret, and the Covenant revealed, and so this, not election abstracted from that, can be the ground of faith, Deut. 29.29. and when Christ saith, Math. 18.4, 10. that little ones Angels behold the face of his Father, and the Holy Ghost saith, Heb. 1.13. that Angels are Ministering Spirits, [Greek or Hebrew]. For these that shall by heritage or lot enjoy salvation. Its clear infants have their share of salvation, and by Covenant it must be. As also the blessed seed is promised to Adam before he have a child, and to his seed: To Seth, Japheth, Isaac, Jacob, Abraham, when Cainan, Ham, Ishmael, Esau, Abraham's Idolatrous house, to David, when his brethren are refused, and to these as heads of Generations, when contrary Generations, and the houses of Cainan, Ham, Ishmael, are rejected: Hence the house of Israel, the seed of Israel, the seed of Jacob, and there shall be added to the Gentiles, Isa. 49. who shall bring in to the Church their sons and their daughters upon their shoulders, ¹22. Isa. 54.1. Sing O barren — for moe are the children of the desolate then of the married wife saith the Lord, Isa. 60.4. Lift up thine eyes round about, and see, all they gather themselves about, they shall come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy sons shall be nourished at thy side. Israel marrying and Israel according to the flesh is the holy seed, Neh. 7.61. Neh. 9.2. the holy seed have mingled with the heathen. 1 Chron. 16.13. O ye seed of Israel his servants, ye children of Jacob whom he hath chosen, be mindful of his Covenant. And this holiness by external Covenanting is extended to the Gentiles,