The church-membership of children, and their right to baptism according to that holy and…The church-membership of children, and their right to baptisme according to that holy and…

I say for Substance the same, for it is acknowledged that there was something proper and personal in Abraham's Covenant, as to be a Father of many Nations, but this was not of the Substance of the Covenant, which belong's to all the Covenanters, and unto which the Seal of Circumcision was set: for all Abraham's seed, neither in those, nor these days, are the fathers of many nations, nor did Circumcision seal it.

I say for Substance the same, for it is acknowledged that there was somthing proper and personal in Abraham's Covenāt, as to be a Father of many Nations, but this was not of the Substance of the Covenant, which belong's to all the Covenanters, and unto which the Seal of Circumcision was set: for all Abraham's seed, neither in those, nor these dayes, are the fathers of many nations, nor did Circumcision seal it.

Again it is confessed, that the external administrations of this one & the same covenant, are diverse; but still the Covenant for substance is the same: For that old covenant was dispensed with other external signs, sacrifices, types, prophesies, then this under the new. There was something Typical in Abraham's covenant concerning Canaan, a type of heaven, but yet the same Covenant remain's now with a more naked manner of dispensation, or promise of heaven. And hence it follow's, that if it may appear, that the Covenant it self is one and the same, now, as then; then, as now; then it will undeniably ⟨p. 7⟩follow, that if the New Covenant under the Gospel be not a carnal Covenant, no more was that: if the new-Covenant be not proper to Abraham's natural seed, no more was that which was made with Abraham: if the substance of that Covenant was, I will be a God to thee and thy seed, then this very Covenant remain's still under the Gospel, it being one and the same with that; if by virtue of that Covenant, the Children were made Members of the Church; and hence had a Church privilege, and seal administered; then the same Covenant remaining the same, and in the same force, and benefit, our Children also are taken into the like Membership. It remain's therefore to prove that which all our Divines have long since made good against the Papists, that the Covenant then, and now, is for substance one and the same; or that the Covenant made with Abraham was a Gospel-Covenant, and this Gospel-Covenant the same that was made with Abraham.