A39697:64
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.
I am particularly concerned to detect your dangerous mistakes, both in love to your own Soul, and care of my Peoples, amongst whom you have dispersed them; though I foresee by M. E's Epistle to your Book what measure I am like to have for my plain and faithful dealing with you: For if that Gentleman, upon a mere surmise and presumption, that one or other would oppose your Book, dare adventure to call your unknown ⟨p. 6⟩Answerer, before ever he put Pen to Paper, a Man-pleaser, a Quarreller at Reformation, and rank him with the Papists, which opposed the Faithful for their non-conformity to their Inventions: What must I expect from such rash Censurers, for my sober, plain, and rational confutation of your Errors!
I am particularly concern'd to detect your dangerous mistakes, both in love to your own Soul, and care of my Peoples, amongst whom you have dispersed them; though I foresee by M. E's Epistle to your Book what measure I am like to have for my plain and faithful dealing with you: For if that Gentleman, upon a meer surmise and presumption, that one or other would oppose your Book, dare adventure to call your unknown ⟨p. 6⟩Answerer, before ever he put Pen to Paper, a Man-pleaser, a Quarreller at Reformation, and rank him with the Papists, which opposed the Faithful for their non-conformity to their Inventions: What must I expect from such rash Censurers, for my sober, plain, and rational confutation of your Errors!
As to the Controversy betwixt us, you truly say in your Title Page, and many parts of your Book, and your Brethren comprobate it in their Epistles, that the main Arguments made use of by the Paedo-Baptists for the support of their practice are taken from the Covenant of God with Abraham, Gen. 17. You call this the very hinge of the Controversy; and therefore if you can but prove this to be the very same Covenant of Works with that made with Adam in Paradise, we shall then see what improvements you will quickly make of it.