A39697:28
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
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.
PROLEGOMENA.
Before we enter into the main Controversy, it will be necessary to acquaint the Reader, why I begin with the middle of the Book; and it is because I there find these three Principles, or Positions, on which the other parts of his Discourse are superstructed; and these being destroyed, his other Discourses are but arenae, sine calce. I properly therefore begin with the Foundation.
BEfore we enter into the main Controversie, it will be necessary to acquaint the Reader, why I begin with the middle of the Book; and it is because I there find these three Principles, or Positions, on which the other parts of his Discourse are superstructed; and these being destroyed, his other Discourses are but arenae, sine calce. I properly therefore begin with the Foundation.
Next, I shall show how far we are greed in the matters here controverted, and where it is in each of these, that •he Controversy indeed lies betwixt us; •nd as to
Next, I shall shew how far we are greed in the matters here controvert•d, and where it is in each of these, that •he Controversie indeed lies betwixt us; •nd as to