A39697:55
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.
THE Book I have undertaken to animadvert briefly upon, bears the Title of A Solemn Call; but I am not so much concerned with the Solemnity, as I am with the Authority of this Call. Not how it is, but whose it is. If it be the Call of God, it must be obeyed, tho it be to part not only with the Privileges, but Lives of our dearest Children; but then we had need be very well assured it is the Call of God, else we are guilty at once of the highest Folly and basest Treachery to part with so rich an Inheritance, conveyed by God's Covenant with Abraham, to us believing ⟨p. 2⟩Gentiles, and our Seed, at Mr. Cary's Call.
THE Book I have undertaken to animadvert briefly upon, bears the Title of A Solemn Call; but I am not so much concerned with the Solemnity, as I am with the Authority of this Call. Not how it is, but whose it is. If it be the Call of God, it must be obey'd, tho it be to part not only with the Priviledges, but Lives of our dearest Children; but then we had need be very well assur'd it is the Call of God, else we are guilty at once of the highest Folly and basest T•eachery to part with so rich an Inheritance, convey'd by God's Covenant with Abraham, to us believing ⟨p. 2⟩Gentiles, and our Seed, at Mr. Cary's Call.
You direct your Solemn Call to all that would be owned as Christs faithful Witnesses.
Here you are too obscure and general; Do you mean all that would be owned by you, or by Christ? If you mean that we must not expect to be owned by you, till we renounce Infants Baptism, you tell us no news; for you have long since turned your back upon our Ministry and Assemblies; yet methinks 'tis strange, that we who were lately owned as Christs faithful Witnesses under our late Sufferings, must now be disowned by you, when we have liberty to amplify and confirm our Testimony in the peaceful improvement of our common Liberty.