A39697:151
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 › Argument 4: Argument IV.
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.
Are you not forced for your Security from the danger of the Third Argument to cut one and the same Covenant made with Abraham just in two, and of the pure promissory part to make a Covenant of Grace; and of the other part, which you your self call a Restipulation, to make another quite opposite Covenant? Don't you magnify the Bounty ⟨p. 59⟩and Grace of God to Abraham in the first four Verses, and then destroy it all, by putting him at once under a contrary Covenant, and so cut off all capacity to enjoy one of those mercies?
Are you not forced for your Security from the danger of the Third Argument to cut one and the same Covenant made with Abraham just in two, and of the pure promissory part to make a Covenant of Grace; and of the other part, which you your self call a Restipulation, to make another quite opposite Covenant? Don't you magnifie the Bounty ⟨p. 59⟩and Grace of God to Abraham in the first four Verses, and then destroy it all, by putting him at once under a contrary Covenant, and so cut off all capacity to enjoy one of those mercies?
Don't you make Circumcision in its own Nature, without respect to the intention of the Person, an Obligation to the whole Law, and that which frustrates the Death of Christ, and yet must grant, that Paul himself took Timothy and circumcised him, and yet thereby brought him under no such dangerous obligation to the Law? In a word,
You reject all those Covenants as legal, that have any conditions in them, or respect to any thing that is to be done by us, and allow Gen. 12