A discourse concerning the subject of baptism wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…A discourse concerning the subject of baptisme wherein the present controversies, that are agitated…

In that Circumcised persons were solemnly dedicated and consecrated to God, so as to become his devoted Servants, yea, they were espoused to the God of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob: Hence a Circumcised person was called by the Name of [Greek or Hebrew] •hathan i. e. an espoused one, quia Circumcisionis die, […] desponsatur, because when he is Circumcised, he is solemnly espoused to the true God. This I take to be the Intendment and Interpretation of that difficult place, Exod. 4. 25. our version (which many Expositors follow) carries it as if those words of Zippora• were spoken to her husband Moses, whom she out of Enmity against that sacred rite of Circumcision called a bloody husband. But I conceive that our translation doth not [Greek or Hebrew] hit upon the true sense of them.

In that Circumcised persons were solemnly dedicated and consecrated to God, so as to become his devoted Servants, yea, they were espoused to the God of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob: Hence a Circumcised person was called by the Name of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 •hathan i. e. an espoused one, quia Circumcisionis die, 〈…〉 desponsatur, because when he is Circumcised, he is solemnly espoused to the true God. This I take to be the Intendment and Interpretation of that difficult place, Exod. 4. 25. our version (which many Expositors follow) carryes it as if those words of Zippora• were spoken to her husband Moses, whom she out of Enmity against that sacred rite of Circumcision called a bloody husband. But I conceive that our translation doth not 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 hit upon the true sense of them.