So, whether the seal be blood or water, the great ordinance which it seals remains the same.
"And now I will tell you," said I, "how it seems to me God's covenanting with parents for their children came to pass.

He wished to give Abraham a token and seal of his love to him.

So he took his child, the thing which he loved best, and would see oftenest, and thought of most, and made the child, as it were, the tablet on which to write his covenant with the father.

That was one reason.

'Because he loved the fathers, therefore he chose their seed.' But this is the least of the reasons in the case.
"Here is one of vastly greater importance.