A39697:221
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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(2.) We take it for granted, that the direct and proper Scope of this place, is to persuade the Jews (to whom St. Peter preached) to repent and be baptized. This you allow, when you say, pag. 10. He uses it as a Motive why they and theirs should actually repent and be baptized. In these two then there is no Controversy.
(2.) We take it for granted, that the direct and proper Scope of this place, is to perswade the Jews (to whom St. Peter preach'd) to repent and be baptized. This you allow, when you say, pag. 10. He uses it as a Motive why they and theirs should actually repent and be baptized. In these two then there is no Controversie.
(3.) We take it for certain, that the Promise here referred to by Peter is that gracious Promise, Gen. 17. 7. I will be a God to thee and thy Seed; the adjoining of their Children to them (saith Calvin (and with him runs the general current of Expositors) depends on the Words of that Promise, Gen. 17. 7. If you be not satisfied with this, but rather will refer it to Joel 2. 28. you are then obliged to answer Mr. Sydenham's Arguments ⟨p. 94⟩a fortiori, from that reference. But you make no Exception at all to this Accommodation of it: And then the Sense must be this, The Promise shall run as before, to you and to your Children.
(3.) We take it for certain, that the Promise here referr'd to by Peter is that gracious Promise, Gen. 17. 7. I will be a God to thee and thy Seed; the adjoyning of their Children to them (saith Calvin (and with him runs the general current of Expositors) depends on the Words of that Promise,