If the original reason for enacting the old law can be shown still to exist, it is strong presumptive evidence that there was no intention to repeal that law.

I explained this, in as simple language as I could, to my excellent friends, and told them, "If God's covenant, which circumcision sealed, were Mosaic, and therefore national, Jewish, we should presume that it ceased with the Jewish nation; or, if it continued, that it was restricted to their posterity.

But why should God bestow his inestimable blessing on the father of the faithful, and take it away from the faithful themselves?
We love our children, as Abraham did his.

It is as important to us that God should be the God of our seed, as it was to Abraham.

My heart yearns after that covenanting God in behalf of my children." "I will give up thinking of Abraham as a Jew," said Mrs.Benson.
"What was he, then ?" said I, "or what will he be to you, from this time ?" "He was the head of believers," said she, "just as Adam was the head of men.