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Vindiciæ legis & fœderis
Vindiciæ legis & fœderis: or, A reply to Mr. Philip Cary's Solemn call Wherein he pretends to answer all the arguments of Mr. Allen, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Sydenham, Mr. Sedgwick, Mr. Roberts, and Dr. Burthogge, for the right of believers infants to baptism, by proving the law at Sinai, and the covenant of circumcision with Abraham, were the very same with Adam's covenant of works, and that because the gospel-covenant is absolute. By John Flavel minister of the gospel in Dartmouth
London: printed for M. Wolton, 1690
A REPLY TO Mr. Philip Cary's Solemn Call. › Section 1: I Position.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(7ly.) Neither is it easy to imagine how such a Covenant, which by the Fall of Adam had utterly lost all its Promises, Privileges and Blessings; and could retain nothing but the Curses and Punishments annexed to it, in case of the least Failure, could possibly be numbered among the chief Privileges in which Gods Israel gloried; as it apparently was, Rom. 9. 4. Who are Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises.
(7ly.) Neither is it easie to imagin how such a Covenant, which by the Fall of Adam had utterly lost all its Promises, Priviledges and Blessings; and could retain nothing but the Curses and Punishments annexed to it, in case of the least Failure, could possibly be numbred among the chief Priviledges in which Gods Israel gloried; as it apparently was, Rom. 9. 4. Who are Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises.
These things considered, with many more (which the intended Brevity of this Discourse will not now admit) I am fully satisfied of the Falsity of your Position, and so may you too, when you shall review the many gross and palpable Absurdities with which I have clogged and loaded it; with many more regularly and fairly deducible from it, which I could easily produce, did I not suspect these I have produced have already pressed your Patience a little too far: But if ever I shall see (which I never ⟨p. 31⟩expect) a fair and Scriptural Solution of these weighty Objections, you may expect from me more Arguments against your unsound Position, which at the present I judge needless to add.
These things considered, with many more (which the intended Brevity of this Discourse will not now admit) I am fully satisfy'd of the Falsity of your Position, and so may you too, when you shall review the many gross and palpable Absurdities with which I have clogg'd and loaded it; with many more regularly and fairly deducible from it, which I could easily produce, did I not suspect these I have produced have already pressed your Patience a littly too far: But if ever I shall see (which I never