A39697:276
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.
(6.) That it is a Settling of our Thresholds by Gods Threshold. The Words you recite from Ezek. 43. 8. which speaks of the Idolatrous Kings of Judah and Israel, building Temples and Altars for their Idols, in, or near the Courts of the Temple of God: As the English Annotations on the Text will inform you, an Abomination that defiled Gods Holy Name, a Wickedness not to be Named, and for which the Lord consumed them; And calls it Whoredom in the next Words. Here Sir, you have exceeded all the Bounds of Society and Christian Charity; And made this circumstantial difference about the Proper Subject of Baptism, the Grossest Heathenish Idolatry in the World: And consequently dissolved the Bond of Christian Charity, and broken off all communion with us; for with such Idolaters you ought not to have any communion.
(6.) That it is a Setling of our Thresholds by Gods Threshold. The Words you recite from Ezek. 43. 8. which speaks of the Idolatrous Kings of Judah and Israel, building Temples and Altars for their Idols, in, or near the Courts of the Temple of God: As the English Annotations on the Text will inform you, an Abomination that defiled Gods Holy Name, a Wickedness not to be Named, and for which the Lord consumed them; And calls it Whoredome in the next Words. Here Sir, you have exceeded all the Bounds of Society and Christian Charity; And made this circumstantial difference about the Proper Subject of Baptism, the Grossest Heathenish Idolatry in the World: And consequently dissolved the Bond of Christian Charity, and broken off all communion with us; for with such Idolaters you ought not to have any communion.
Your more wise and moderate Brethren in the place above cited, tell us, they are loath hereby to alienate their Affections or Conversations from any that fear the Lord, and are willing to participate of the Labours of those whom God hath endued with Abilities above themselves; Qualified and called to the Ministry of the Word; Desirous of Peace and not of renewed Contests hereabout. This is a Language of another Air. And if they be (as I dare not suspect but they are) sincere in that Profession, they dare not Comprobate such a desperate and unchristian censure as yours is: If they do, then we may easily guess what our Lot and Treatment shall be whenever Anabaptism get the Ascendent in England. We may expect as civil usage as is due to gross Idolaters, and no better. But I hope better things.