Section VI.

THE ARGUMENT.

Circumcision sealed the Abrahamic covenant. The same may be said of baptism. From hence also its value and dignity may be inferred.

God said unto Abraham, ' I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant ; to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession ; and I will be their God.' Gen. 17, 7 8. This covenant was sealed by circumcision. See v. 11, compared with Rom. 4.

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