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3. The Infants of Professing Parents are in the Gospel Covenant. By professing Parents I understand, such as do openly own the truths of the Gospel, and do walk orderly in subjection to the Government of Christ therein appointed; and that the Children of such as are within the Vineyard, are brought under the terms of the Covenant, and privileged with the outward benefit of it, is a great Scripture Truth, and a ground of abundance of consolation to the souls ⟨p. 82⟩of serious Parents, then they can look into the Word of God, and there satisfy themselves in this, that God hath so far owned their Children to be his, as to take them under the shadow of his Covenant. This was not only a privilege conf•r•ed upon Israel in the days of the Old Testament; but it belongs to the visible Church in the days of the New Testament too: It belonged not restrictively to Moses's; pedagogy, but it was put into Abraham's Covenant, Gen. 17.7, 9. It is therefore revived in the days of the Gospel, Acts 2.3•. the promise is to you and to your Children, 1 Cor. 7.14. your Children are holy; and certainly it cannot but be some relief to a sorrowful Christian, when his Infant dies, to think with himself, this Child of mine wa• in Covenant with God; especially if he consider how much there is in this; and therefore,

3. The Infants of Professing Parents are in the Gospel Covenant. By professing Parents I understand, such as do openly own the truths of the Gospel, and do walk orderly in subjection to the Government of Christ therein appointed; and that the Children of such as are within the Vineyard, are brought under the terms of the Covenant, and priviledged with the outward benefit of it, is a great Scripture Truth, and a ground of abundance of consolation to the souls ⟨p. 82⟩