That baptism seals the Abrahamic covenant, is denied by those who deny infant baptism. They well know if this was the case, it would follow that infants should be baptised ; because infants were circumcised. They therefore say, that the covenant which God made with Abraham was only of a temporal nature, and therefore did not include the blessings that should be manifested under the new testament dispensation. It is readily admitted, that God stipulated temporal blessings to Abraham, when he promised the land of Canaan. But this by no means proves that he did not also stipulate to him and to his seed spiritual and eternal blessings.

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