So I told them frequently to look up to those old heavens, and remember that the covenant-keeping God is there, the same who, in blessing Abraham, included his seed; and that, because Abraham was so good a man, God calls his posterity "the seed of Abraham my friend." And so we said good-night.
In reading over what I have written, there are a few things more which I feel disposed to add, because I know that Percival will make good use of them in talking with others in your congregation.
I feel, more than I can express, that the state of mind in parents which will make them prize and use the ordinance of baptism for their children is the great want of our day.

Bringing children to church, and baptizing them, unless the parents are themselves in covenant with God, is as wrong as it was for those earthly-minded Corinthians, whom Paul rebukes, to eat the Lord's Supper.

They made a feast, or a meal, of the supper; and some use baptism just to give a child a name,--to "christen" it, as they say,--in mere compliance with a custom.

But the abuse of a thing is no valid argument against it.

The last supper is the subject of far more perversion; it gives occasion to a vast amount of superstition and folly.