A39697:176
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 3: Argument III.
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.
Object. But, say you, pag. 233. To impose new Conditions, though never so •ild, is a New Covenant of Works with me Mercy, but not a Covenant of race, properly so called.
Object. But, say you, pag. 233. To im•ose new Conditions, though never so •ild, is a New Covenant of Works with me Mercy, but not a Covenant of race, properly so called.
Sol. 'Tis true, if those Works or Acts ours, which God requires, be under•od of meritorious Works in our own ⟨p. 72⟩Strength and Power to perform, it destroys the Free Grace of the Covenant; but this we utterly reject, and speak only of Faith wrought in us by the Spirit of God, which receives all from God, and gives the entire Glory to God, Ephes. 2. 5, 8.
Sol. T's true, if those Works or Acts ours, which God requires, be under•od of meritorious Works in our own ⟨p. 72⟩Strength and Power to perform, it destroys the Free Grace of the Covenant; but this we utterly reject, and speak only of Faith wrought in us by the Spirit of God, which receives all from God, and gives the entire Glory to God, Ephes. 2. 5, 8.