A39697:205
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.
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.
(2.) It is objected against you, Page 2. That if the Commission Matt. 28. excludes none from Baptism, but such as are to be excluded by the order therein to be observed, and if Baptizing and Teaching are to precede or follow one the other, as there named by Christ, then these two Conclusions will follow. (1.) That Infants are not there excluded from Baptism. (2.) That a Person may be baptized before he be taught; for there we have First [Greek or Hebrew]. Disciple all Nations, make them Disciples or Christians. Secondly, We have [Greek or Hebrew], which literally to translate is Baptizing-teaching. Now then Discipling being a general word, that contains in it the two others that follow, viz. Baptizing and Teaching; and being the Imperative Mood, whereas the other two are Participles; it is manifest, that the whole Command or Commission is given in that, and the mode of Execution in these; and if the mode of executing that general Commission be expressed in these, where Baptizing is first, and teaching comes after; what is become of the order ⟨p. 86⟩the Antipoedobaptists have so long talked of?
(2.) It is objected against you, Page 2. That if the Commission Matt. 28. excludes none from Baptism, but such as are to be excluded by the order therein to be observed, and if Baptizing and Teaching are to precede or follow one the other, as there named by Christ, then these two Conclusions will follow. (1.) That Infants are not there excluded from Baptism. (2.) That a Person may be baptized before he be taught; for there we have First 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Disciple all Nations, make them Disciples or Christians. Secondly, We have 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, which literally to translate is Baptizing-teaching. Now then Discipling being a general word, that contains in it the two others that follow, viz. Baptizing and Teaching; and being the Imperative Mood, whereas the other two are Participles; it is manifest, that the whole Command or Commission is given in that, and the mode of Execution in these; and if the mode of executing that general Commission be expressed in these, where Baptizing is first, and teaching comes after; what is become of the order