A39697:159
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 3 › Argument 1: Argument I.
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.
Argument I.
If we cannot be Justified or Saved till we believe, then Faith is the Condition on which those consequent Benefits are suspended.
If we cannot be Justifyed or Saved till we believe, then Faith is the Condition on which those consequent Benefits are suspended.
But we cannot be Justified or Saved till we believe. Ergo.
But we cannot be Justisied or Saved till we believe. Ergo.
The Sequel of the Major is evident; for as was said before, a Condition is the Suspension of a Grant, till something future be done. The Minor is plain in Scripture, Rom. 4. 24. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that righteousness was imputed to him, but for our sakes also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe. [Greek or Hebrew], Qibus futurum est ut imputetur, to whom it shall come to pass, that it shall be imputed, if we believe: And Acts 10. 43. Whosoever believeth on him, shall receive remission of sins.