A39697:244
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.) Your Second Answer is no less absurd, That if Baptism, according to our Argument, succeeds in the place of Circumcision, then Females must be excluded from Baptism. You had as good have ⟨p. 104⟩said, That the enlargement of the Privilege under the Gospel, is no good Medium to prove we are as complete now under Baptism, as they were under Circumcision: Cannot Baptism stand in the place of Circumcision, because it answers all its ends, with an advantage? This to me is a very strange Answer; however it must stand in the place of a better, rather than Baptism shall stand in place of Circumcision.
(2.) Your Second Answer is no less absurd, That if Baptism, according to our Argument, succeeds in the place of Circumcision, then Females must be excluded from Baptism. You had as good have ⟨p. 104⟩said, That the enlargement of the Priviledg under the Gospel, is no good Medium to prove we are as compleat now under Baptism, as they were under Circumcision: Cannot Baptism stand in the place of Circumcision, because it answers all its ends, with an advantage? This to me is a very strange Answer; however it must stand in the place of a better, rather than Baptism shall stand in place of Circumcision.
Obj. But if Baptism succeed in the room of Circumcision, and there be such an Analogy betwixt them as you pretend, then it will follow, that you are obliged to Baptise your Children the Eighth Day, as they Circumcised theirs.
Obj. But if Baptism succeed in the room of Circumcision, and there be such an Analogy betwixt them as you pretend, then it will follow, that you are oblig'd to Baptise your Children the Eighth Day, as they Circumcised theirs.