A39697:235
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.
(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.
(2.) 'Tis as plain that the Argument by which he establishes them in the truth of the Gospel, and secures them against the danger of returning to those Jewish Rites, especially Circumcision, is drawn from their Completeness in Christ without it, vers. 9. & 10. and that whatsoever they had under Circumcision, they now ⟨p. 100⟩enjoy in as complete and full a measure and manner, as ever Abraham and his Seed did. And ye are complete in him, i. e. in Christ.
(2.) 'Tis as plain that the Argument by which he establishes them in the truth of the Gospel, and secures them against the danger of returning to those Jewish Rites, especially Circumcision, is drawn from their Compleatness in Christ without it, vers. 9. & 10. and that whatsoever they had under Circumcision, they now ⟨p. 100⟩enjoy in as compleat and full a measure and manner, as ever Abraham and his Seed did. And ye are compleat in him, i. e. in Christ.