A39697:153
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
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.
III. Of the Conditionality of the New Covenant.
Come we next to consider that Opinion of yours, which led you into these ⟨p. 60⟩other gross mistakes and absurdities, and that is this, That the Covenant of Grace is absolute, and whatever Covenant is not so, but hath any condition upon our part, must needs for that reason be a Covenant of Works. See Page 229. It is observable (say you) that as the Covenants mentioned Gen. 2. Exod. 20. &c. were all conditional, and therefore legal Covenants, requiring strict and perfect Obedience, as the condition propounded, in order to the enjoyment of the mercies contained in them, which are all therefore done away in Christ; so on the other hand we see, that the Covenant God made with Abraham, Gen. 12. 2, 3. and Gen. 17. 2, 3. and Gen. 22. 16, 17, 18. was wholly free and absolute, and therefore purely Evangelical, &c. We will review these things anon, and see if you truly represent the matter; but in order to it, let me first tell you