Infant baptism God's ordinance, or, Clear proof that all the children of believing parents are in the covenant of grace and have as much a right to baptism the now seal of the covenant, as the infant seed of the Jewes had to circumcision, the then seal of the covenant / by Michael Harrison ...

ARGUMENT V.

The Fifth Argument for Infant Baptism is this:

If the Infants of believing Parents be in the Covenant of Grace, and the Promise of the Covenant do belong to them; then they may, and ought to be baptized.

But such Infants are in covenant, and the Promise of the Covenant doth belong to them, therefore they ought to be baptized.

That they are in covenant as well as their Parents, is undeniably evident from the te∣nure of that Covenant made with Abraham, which was a Gospel-covenant, Gen. 17.7 as we have abundantly proved; and that the Promise of the Covenant is to them, is as evident, Act. 2.39. The promise is to you, and to your children; he means the Promise of God to Abraham; the Promise of Salvation by Christ, which was promised both to Jews and Gentiles; but to the Jews in the first place: Or suppose the Apostle hath respect unto Jer. 31.33, 34. or to Joel 2.28. it al∣ters not the case, for those were all branches of the Covenant of Grace, and Explications of what was virtually contained in that first Promise to Abraham, Gen. 17.7.