A39697:233
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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(6.) Having vindicated Acts 2. 38, 39. which confirms our Fourth Assertion, viz. The Identity of the Promise the Jews were, and we are under: We proceed next to vindicate 2 Col. 8. 9, 10, 11, 12. whereby we prove the Succession of Baptism to Circumcision, and vindicate it from that Foreign Sense you force upon ⟨p. 99⟩it, to the great Injury of the Text, as well as of our Infants, whom you exclude from any concernment therein.
Without any representation at all of the grounds on which we proceed, to prove the Succession of this Ordinance to that, you as rashly as confidently call it a groundless Inference; which, whether it be or no, let the Impartial judge, when they shall see the grounds on which we build that Assertion.
(1.) 'Tis out of Controversy, that the Scope of this place is to take off the Colossians from Circumcision, and other Jewish Rites and Ceremonies, which the False Teachers at that time earnestly endeavoured to reduce them to, as appears vers. 4. to be his plain design, And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words; and he saith it with great concernment of mind, as appears vers. 1.
(1.) 'Tis out of Controversie, that the Scope of this place is to take off the Colossians from Circumcision, and other Jewish Rites and Ceremonies, which the False Teachers at that time earnestly endeavoured to reduce them to, as appears vers. 4. to be his plain design, And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words; and he saith it with great concernment of mind, as appears vers. 1.