Quotes from: God's Covenant with His People
"The action of a great many professed Christians is indicative of their disposition to have their own way. They make their covenant, and ask God to take them on the ground of their own covenant, disregarding God’s covenant, thus making light of his way, and marking out their own way of salvation. It should be remembered, that this is not accepting of God’s way of salvation. If we have salvation, we are to have it in the way God has appointed, or not at all." –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter I, 48
"The true light in which children are to be regarded, that are children of this covenant, is, as being planted in this covenant; and from the nature and richness of this covenant, they grow up as from holy seed, to become the church visible; and eventually the church triumphant." –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter I, 68
"To be born to distinctive privileges in this world, is desirable. But to be born under circumstances where we may be known of God, as his “holy seed,” is a state blessed beyond description. What could be more pleasing to parents, than to have the privilege, when they have come to Christ themselves, to bring their children and place them in covenant relation to God?" –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter I, 75-76
"Now, is not a promise to be preferred that looks to our children, and to ourselves at the same moment of time – that looks to us without our asking? A promise that both pertains and looks to our children, when they are in unbelief, away from God; when they are full of the follies of this world, is it not most to be desired? Such is the promise of the covenant." –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter III, 135-136
“Now, if Cornelius was so good a man, that an angel from God appeared to him to tell him that God heard his prayers – that his prayers and his alms had come up before God for a memorial, why send so far for Peter? Why did not Cornelius direct his devout soldier, Acts, x. 7, to immerse him, and then he immerse his devout soldiers, and then go on and establish a church, as Roger Williams did the Baptist church in these United States? But no! This was God’s work, and a work so important that an angel from heaven is sent to direct Cornelius to send for an Abrahamic covenant minister to preach to him the true faith.” –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter III, 190-191
“Our Baptist friends frequently demand of us the particular command for infant dedication, from the New Testament. But there is no necessity for this. When God has once established a thing, and required it to be perpetual, what folly for him to expressly command his children to introduce what he had long before introduced, and established as a perpetual ordinance, and had never revoked it?” –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter III, 201-202
"The true light in which children are to be regarded, that are children of this covenant, is, as being planted in this covenant; and from the nature and richness of this covenant, they grow up as from holy seed, to become the church visible; and eventually the church triumphant." –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter I, 68
"To be born to distinctive privileges in this world, is desirable. But to be born under circumstances where we may be known of God, as his “holy seed,” is a state blessed beyond description. What could be more pleasing to parents, than to have the privilege, when they have come to Christ themselves, to bring their children and place them in covenant relation to God?" –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter I, 75-76
"Now, is not a promise to be preferred that looks to our children, and to ourselves at the same moment of time – that looks to us without our asking? A promise that both pertains and looks to our children, when they are in unbelief, away from God; when they are full of the follies of this world, is it not most to be desired? Such is the promise of the covenant." –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter III, 135-136
“Now, if Cornelius was so good a man, that an angel from God appeared to him to tell him that God heard his prayers – that his prayers and his alms had come up before God for a memorial, why send so far for Peter? Why did not Cornelius direct his devout soldier, Acts, x. 7, to immerse him, and then he immerse his devout soldiers, and then go on and establish a church, as Roger Williams did the Baptist church in these United States? But no! This was God’s work, and a work so important that an angel from heaven is sent to direct Cornelius to send for an Abrahamic covenant minister to preach to him the true faith.” –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter III, 190-191
“Our Baptist friends frequently demand of us the particular command for infant dedication, from the New Testament. But there is no necessity for this. When God has once established a thing, and required it to be perpetual, what folly for him to expressly command his children to introduce what he had long before introduced, and established as a perpetual ordinance, and had never revoked it?” –Rev. Doolittle, Chapter III, 201-202