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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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I have now dispatched what I at first promised and intended, viz. The Confutation of my Friends Mistakes about the Covenants, and the Vindication of those Scriptures, by which our Arguments deduced from one of them, are confirmed. And now I have no further concernment with Mr. Cary's Solemn Call, save only to note his high Confidence, rash ⟨p. 125⟩and most unchristian censures of all his differing Friends and Brethren with which he concludes his discourse, wherein he calls Infants Baptism,
(1.) A great abuse in the Divine Worship. Pag. 242, 243. And yet he that so calls it, never looked half way into the Controversy, nor is able without manifest shuffling, and contradiction both to the Words of God, and his own Words, to Answer our Arguments; as is here made too evident.
(1.) A great abuse in the Divine Worship. Pag. 242, 243. And yet he that so calls it, never looked half way into the Controversie, nor is able without manifest shuffling, and contradiction both to the Words of God, and his own Words, to Answer our Arguments; as is here made too evident.
(2.) That it is no other, than a change of a Divine Institution, and making void the Commandment of Christ, the horrid Sin charged by Christ upon those Hypocrites, the Scribes and Pharisees, Math. 15. 6. With no better than these doth he rank and associate the many thousands of Gods choice and dear People, who differ in this circumstantial Point from him.
(2.) That it is no other, than a change of a Divine Institution, and making void the Commandment of Christ, the horrid Sin charged by Christ upon those Hypocrites, the Scribes and Pharisees,