A39697:49
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.
These things premised, I shall only further add, that if Mr. Cary shall attempt a Reply to my Answer, and free his own Theses from the gross absurdities with which I have loaded them; he must plainly and substantially prove against me,
(1.) That the Sinai Law, according to its true scope and end, was promulged by God for man's Justification and Happiness in the way of personal Obedience; and that the Jews that did accordingly endeavour after Righteousness by the works of the Law, did not mistake its true end and meaning; or if they did, and thereby made it what God never intended it to be, a Covenant of works to themselves; that the Sinai Law ought rather to be denominated from their mistake and abuse of it, than from its primary and proper use, and God's design in its promulgation.
(2.) He must prove against me with like evidence of truth, that Circumcision discovered no more of Man's Native Corruption, nor any more of his remedy by Christ; nor sealed to any Person whatsoever the Righteousness of Faith, than Adam's Covenant in Paradise did; and that it did in its own nature oblige all upon whom it passed, to the same terms of Obedience that Adam's Covenant obliged him: And,