A39697:258
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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But you will say, There's no mention •ere made of the grafting in of our Children with us. We reply, Neither •s there any mention here made of the •reaking off of their Children with them, which yet was so. Nor was there need […] say it, seeing both their Infants and •urs, are comprehended in the Parents, as •wigs are comprehended in the Branch, […] Buds in the Graft; and the one be•g holy, so is the other: And this Fede•l Holiness of the Children is not only mentioned in this Chapter, vers. 16. but ⟨p. 114⟩also in 1 Cor. 7. 14. Now are your Chi• dren holy. And the very same Promis• which conveyed the Fatness of th• Olive to Abraham's natural Seed, man• festly extends it self to the Gentile Be• lievers Seed, Acts 2. 38, 39. And […] Men will not shut their Eyes, and stud• Evasions, what can be plainer fro• Scripture in this Explication and Application of this place! We have with […] the Consent of the generality of Orth• dox Expositors; the Sense it self is g• nuine, easy, and unconstrained; agree able with the Letter and Scope of t• Text; whether the Sense you set […] against it be as probable as this, […] come next to examine. And truly, Si• your Answer is as ambiguous as a D• phic Oracle: For (1.) You tell us, pag. […] That the ingrafting spoken of in this place, into the invisible Church by election. We s it is into the visible Church by Profess of Faith; for we know not how to […] derstand any breaking off from the i visible Church, nor falling from Elect on: But 'tis like you better consider the Consequents of that Opinion dra upon you by Mr. Sydenham in his 85 Page, and therefore nauseating th