A39697:65
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.
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.
As to the Controversie 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 Controversie; 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.
Ay Sir, You are sensible of the Advantage, no less than a complete Victory you shall obtain by it; and therefore being a more hardy and adventurous Man than others, put desperately upon it (which never any before you durst attempt) to prove Abraham's Covenant, ⟨p. 7⟩which stands so much in the way of your Cause, to be a mere Covenant of Works, and therefore now abolished.
Ay Sir, You are sensible of the Advantage, no less than a compleat Victory you shall obtain by it; and therefore being a more hardy and adventurous Man than others, put desperately upon it (which never any before you durst attempt) to prove Abraham's Covenant, ⟨p. 7⟩which stands so much in the way of your Cause, to be a meer Covenant of Works, and therefore now abolished.