A39697:292
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.
I say with Taxiles, I had never armed against you, had you not come to take away our Water, and the necessaries of Life, I mean, the Covenant of God with Abraham, which contains the rich Charter of the Gentile Believers Children, and make it an abolished Adam's Covenant, and told us, that we must come up to the Primitive Purity in these things, that is, in renouncing it as a Covenant of Grace, and relinquishing Infants Baptism, as grounded thereon.
Sir, Were my one Father alive, I must and would oppose him, should he attempt what here you do. Infant Baptism with you is not; Singing of Psalms, that plain and Heavenly Gospel-Ordinance, with you is not, and will you take away our Benjamin also? What! the Covenant of God with Abraham and his Children in their Generations? all these things are against us. No, Sir, we cannot part with that Covenant as an abolished Adam's Covenant; nor will I give it up for all the Friendship in the World.
Sir, Were my one Father alive, I must and would oppose him, should he attempt what here you do. Infant Baptism with you is not; Singing of Psalms, that plain and Heavenly Gospel-Ordinance, with you is not, and will you take away our Benjamin also? What! the Covenant of God with Abraham and his Children in their Generations? all these things are against us. No, Sir, we cannot part with that Covenant as an abolish'd Adam's Covenant; nor will I give it up for all the Friendship in the World.
And yet I will say with Alexander, I will contend with you in Friendship and Courtesy, even whilst I earnestly contend against you for the Truths of God, which you have here opposed, and I have endeavoured to vindicate.
And yet I will say with Alexander, I will contend with you in Friendship and Courtesie, even whilst I earnestly contend against you for the Truths of God, which you have here opposed, and I have endeavoured to vindicate.