A39697:211
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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Sydenham hath sufficiently baffled that Interpretation, by showing its inconsistence with the Scope and Argument of the place, and how ridiculous this Sense would be, when reduced to a formal Argument.
Sydenham hath sufficiently baffled that Interpretation, by shewing its inconsistence with the Scope and Argument of the place, and how ridiculous this Sense would be, when reduced to a formal Argument.
(4.) The fourth Argument you pretend to answer, pag. 8. is drawn from 1 Cor. 7. 14. Else were your Children unclean, but now are they holy. To this you answer two things. (1.) That the Holiness here spoken of, is not a Federal, but a Matrimonial Holiness, namely, Legitimacy, and is as much as to say, your Children are no Bastards, seeing one of you is a Believer.
Reply. If this be true, and the genuine Sense of this Text, then all the Children in the World, not immediately descended from one or both believing Parents, must of necessity be all Bastards, and their Parents, how solemnly soever married, ⟨p. 91⟩must live in uncleanness; and what mad Work (think you) will this Assertion make in the World? And how many Millions of Persons will it nearly touch, both in point of Honour, and Inheritance?