A39697:41
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.
III Position.
That neither Moses's Law, Exod. 2• nor God's Covenant with Abraham, Ge• 17. can be any other than an Adam's Cov• nant of Works, because they have each […] them conditions in them on Man's part; […] the Gospel-Covenant hath none at all, but […] altogether free and absolute.
That neither Moses's Law, Exod. 2• nor God's Covenant with Abraham, Ge• 17. can be any other than an Adam's Cov• nant of Works, because they have each 〈…〉 them conditions in them on Man's part; 〈…〉 the Gospel-Covenant hath none at all, but 〈…〉 altogether free and absolute.
The Controversy here betwixt us […] not (1.) Whether the Gospel-Covenant requires no duties at all of them tha• are under it? nor (2.) Whether it requires any such conditions as were […] Adam's Covenant, namely, perfect, personal, and perpetual obedience under ⟨image 15⟩the severest Penalty of a Curse; and admitting no place of Repentance? Nor (3.) Whether any condition required by it, on our part, have any thing in its own nature Meritorious of the Benefits promised? Nor (4.) Whether we be able in our own Strength, and by the Power of our Free Will, without the preventing, as well as the assisting Grace of God, to perform any such Work or Duty as we call a Condition? In these things we have no Controversy, but the only Question betwixt us, is,