A39697:70
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
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(2.) They assert and prove, That in Abraham's Covenant, the Infant-Seed were taken in with their Parents, and that in token thereof, they were to have the Sign of the Covenant applied to them, Gen. 17. 9.
(3.) They affirm and prove, That the Promise of God to Abraham and his Seed, with the Privileges thereof to his Children, do, for the Substance of them, descend to Believers now, and their Seed, Acts 2. 38, 39. and though the external Sign, viz. Circumcision be changed, ⟨p. 9⟩yet Baptism takes its place under the Gospel, Col. 2. 11, 12.
(3.) They affirm and prove, That the Promise of God to Abraham and his Seed, with the Priviledges thereof to his Children, do, for the Substance of them, descend to Believers now, and their Seed, Acts 2. 38, 39. and though the external Sign, viz. Circumcision be changed, ⟨p. 9⟩yet Baptism takes its place under the Gospel, Col. 2. 11, 12.
(4.) They constantly affirm, That none of those Grants or Privileges, made to the Infant-Seed of Abraham's Family, were ever repealed or revoked by Christ or his Apostles; and therefore Believers Children now are in the rightful Possession of them; and that therefore there needed no new Command or Promise; in Abraham's Command we find our Duty to Sign our Children with the Sign of the Covenant, and in Abraham's Promise we find God's gracious Grant to our Children, as well as his, especially since the Apostle directs us, in this very respect, to the Covenant of God with Abraham,