A39697:121
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 2: II 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.
(5.) It was also an obliging Sign to Abraham and his Seed, to walk with God in the Uprightness and Sincerity of their Hearts, in the performance of all covenanted Duties, in which Duties Abraham and the Faithful wa•ked Obedientially with God, looking to Christ for Righteousness; but the carnal Jews resting in, and trusting to those Duties and Ordinances for Righteousness and Justification, made it a Covenant of Works to themselves, and Circumcision it self a Bond of that Covenant.
(6.) Now for as much as Circumcision prefigured Christ, who was to come of this Holy circumcised Seed of Abraham, and his Death also was pointed at therein, Heb. 2. 16. Col. 2. 11. of necessity this Ordinance must vanish at the Death of Christ, and accordingly did so.
These things duly pondered, how irrational is it to imagine this Covenant of Circumcision to be the very same with the Paradisical Covenant! Did that Covenant discover native Corruption, and direct to its remedy in Christ as this did? Surely it gave not the least glimpse ⟨p. 41⟩of any such thing. Did that Covenant separate and distinguish one Person from another as this did? No, no, it left all under equal and common Misery, Eph. 2. 3.
These things duly pondered, how irrational is it to imagine this Covenant of Circumcision to be the very same with the Paradisical Covenant! Did that Covenant discover native Corruption, and direct to its remedy in Christ as this did? Surely it gave not the least glimps