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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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(4.) We further say, That except he had intended in these Words to have placed Baptism as an external Ordinance, in place and stead of outward Circumcision, he could never have pitched upon a worse Instance than that of Circumcision, which was so much valued by them: Yea, from the very instance he brings, he had put a strong Objection into their Months against his Assertion, vers. 10. That we are every way as complete without it, as the Jews were with it; for then their Children enjoyed an Ordinance of great value, which ours are deprived of, having none under the Gospel in lieu of it. Hence we argue,
(4.) We further say, That except he had intended in these Words to have placed Baptism as an external Ordinance, in place and stead of outward Circumcision, he could never have pitch'd upon a worse Instance than that of Circumcision, which was so much valued by them: Yea, from the very instance he brings, he had put a strong Objection into their Months against his Assertion, vers. 10. That we are every way as compleat without it, as the Jews were with it; for then their Children enjoyed an Ordinance of great value, which ours are deprived of, having none under the Gospel in lieu of it. Hence we argue,
Argument. If the Ordinance of Baptism now be appointed to answer the same ends that Circumcision did to the Jews, and to make us every way as complete in Privileges, as Circumcision did them, then it comes in the place and room of it; and our Children have the same right to this, as theirs had to that.
Argument. If the Ordinance of Baptism now be appointed to answer the same ends that Circumcision did to the Jews, and to make us every way as compleat in Priviledges, as Circumcision did them, then it comes in the place and room of it; and our Children have the same right to this, as theirs had to that.