A39697:188
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 5: Argument V.
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Argument V.
If the Covenant of Grace be altogether Absolute and Unconditional, requiring nothing to be done on our part, to entitle us to its Benefits; then it cannot be Man's Duty in entering Covenant with God, to deliberate the Terms, count the Cost, or give his consent by word or writing, explicitly to the Terms of this Covenant.
If the Covenant of Grace be altogether Absolute and Unconditional, requiring nothing to be done on our part, to entitle us to its Benefits; then it cannot be Man's Duty in entring Covenant with God, to deliberate the Terms, count the Cost, or give his consent by word or writing, explicitly to the Terms of this Covenant.
But it is Man's Duty, in entering Covenant with God, to deliberate the Terms, and count the Cost, Luke 14. 26. to 34. and explicitly to give his ⟨p. 79⟩consent thereto, either by Word or Writing, Ergo,
But it is Man's Duty, in entring Covenant with God, to deliberate the Terms, and count the Cost, Luke 14. 26. to 34. and explicitly to give his ⟨p. 79⟩consent thereto, either by Word or Writing, Ergo,