A39697:256
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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(5.) These naturally wild, but now engrafted Branches, viz. the Believing Gentiles, being grafted by Faith amongst the natural Branches, and with them sucking the Fatness of the same Root and Olive, that is to say, the Privileges, Ordinances and Franchises of the Church; we cannot but judge it to be a natural, clear and necessary Consequent, that the same Privileges the natural Branches once had, and the remaining Branches, amongst whom the Gentile Believers were ⟨p. 112⟩ingrafted, then had; the very same the Gentile Believers and their Children do now enjoy, by virtue of their Interest in the same Root; else we cannot understand how we should be said to partake with them of the root and fatness of the Olive: Certainly the Sap is the same, which the Root sends into all the Branches, whether they be natural, or ingrafted ones; and is as plentifully communicated to the ingrafted, as to the natural Branches: For the watering of this Olive with the more rich and plentiful Grace of the Gospel, must make the Olive-tree as s•t and flourishing as e•r it was to supply all its Branches, and •ore than ever before.
(5.) These naturally wild, but now engrafted Branches, viz. the Believing Gentiles, being grafted by Faith amongst the natural Branches, and with them sucking the Fatness of the same Root and Olive, that is to say, the Priviledges, Ordinances and Franchises of the Church; we cannot but judge it to be a natural, clear and necessary Consequent, that the same Priviledges the natural Branches once had, and the remaining Branches, amongst whom the Gentile Believers were ⟨p. 112⟩ingrafted, then had; the very same the Gentile Believers and their Children do now enjoy, by vertue of their Interest in the same Root; else we cannot understand how we should be said to partake with them of the root and fatness of the Olive: Certainly the Sap is the same, which the Root sends into all the Branches, whether they be natural, or ingrafted ones; and is as plentifully communicated to the ingrafted, as to the natural Branches: For the watering of this Olive with the more rich and plentiful Grace of the Gospel, must make the Olive-tree as s•t and flourishing as er it was to supply all its Branches, and ore than ever before.