The object of this recognition is, that He may have a godly seed.

God does not perpetuate religion directly by natural descent, it is true, but he seeks to promote it by descent from a pious parentage, and he therefore endows that parentage with special privileges and promises.

The inclusion of children with their believing parents has been the great means of perpetuating religion in the earth.

It is a stream which washed the shores of Judaism under the name of circumcision; now it washes the shores of the Gentiles under the name of baptism.

For the Saviour or the apostles to have reaeppointed infant dedication, with the use of the cotemporary initiating ordinance, would, to my mind, be as superfluous as for the allied powers to have agreed that the Danube should still run through Austria.
_Mr.K._ Your principle of interpretation, Mr.M., has brought in all the darkness which has covered the earth in the Romish apostacy.