A39697:257
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.
Seeing then we Gentiles have (1.) The same grafting into the true Olive. And (2.) That our present grafting in, is answerable to their present casting out. And (3.) That their re-ingrafting in the end of the World, shall be the same for substance that ours now is, and their own first was: For when they were first taken in, they and their Children were taken in together; when they were broken off, they and their Children were broken off together; and when they ⟨p. 113⟩shall be taken in again, they and their Children shall be taken in again. And (4.) Seeing all these their expected mercies are secured to them by the Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which will extend again to them, when their Unbelief shall be taken away: Methinks (as was said before) nothing can be clearer than this Conclusion, That we Gentile Believers are now invested with the same Privileges they once enjoyed, and our Children have the same Federal Holiness, or relation to the Covenant theirs had, by being grafted amongst them, and living on the same Sap they did, and that by the •ame Promise, Acts 2. 39.
Seeing then we Gentiles have (1.) The same grafting into the true Olive. And (2.) That our present grafting in, is answerable to their present casting out. And (3.) That their re-ingrafting in the end of the World, shall be the same for substance that ours now is, and their own first was: For when they were first taken in, they and their Children were taken in together; when they were broken off, they and their Children were broken off together; and when they ⟨p. 113⟩shall be taken in again, they and their Children shall be taken in again. And (4.) Seeing all these their expected mercies are secured to them by the Covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which will extend again to them, when their Unbelief shall be taken away: Methinks (as was said before) nothing can be clearer than this Conclusion, That we Gentile Believers are now invested with the same Priviledges they once enjoy'd, and our Children have the same Federal Holiness, or relation to the Covenant theirs had, by being grafted amongst them, and living on the same Sap they did, and that by the •ame Promise,