A39697:293
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.
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.
One Word more before I part with you, I do assure you, and the whole World, that in this Controversy with you, I have not knowingly or advisedly misrepresented your Sense: If you shall say I did so in my second Argument from the Words p. 179. I assure you, both my self and others could understand you no otherwise than I did in the Papers I sent you; and when you told me, you meant