A39697:62
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.
But really Sir, this Discourse of yours hath very much convinced me of the weakness and sickliness of your Cause, which is forced to seek a new Foundation, and is here laid by you upon such a Foundation as must inevitably ruin it, if your Party, as well as your self, have but resolution enough to venture it thereupon.
But really Sir, this Discourse of yours hath very much convinc'd me of the weakness and sickliness of your Cause, which is forc'd to seek a new Foundation, and is here laid by you upon such a Foundation as must inevitably ruin it, if your Party, as well as your self, have but resolution enough to venture it thereupon.
And it appears to me very probable, that they intend to fight us upon the new ground you have here chosen, and marked out for them, by the high Encomiums ⟨p. 5⟩they give your Book in their Epistles to it, wherein they tell us, Your Notions are of so rare a nature, that you are not beholding to any other for them; and it is a wonder if you should, for I think it never entered into any sober Christians Head before you, that Abraham's Covenant, Gen. 17. was the very same with Adam's Covenant made in Paradise; or that Moses, Abraham, and all the Elect of God in those days were absolutely under the very rigour and tyranny of the Covenant of Works, and at the same time under the Covenant of Grace, and all the Blessings and Privileges thereof, with many other such rare Notions, of which it is pity but you should have the sole propriety.
And it appears to me very probable, that they intend to fight us upon the new ground you have here chosen, and mark'd out for them, by the high Encomiums ⟨p. 5⟩they give your Book in their Epistles to it, wherein they tell us, Your Notions are of so rare a nature, that you are not beholding to any other for them; and it is a wonder if you should, for I think it never entred into any sober Christians Head before you, that Abraham's Covenant,