A39697:82
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
A REPLY TO Mr. Philip Cary's Solemn Call. › Section 1: I Position.
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.
(1.) During Life they must hang mid-way between Justification and Condemnation; justified they could not be, ⟨p. 14⟩for Justification is the Souls passing from Death to Life, 1 John 3. 14. John 5. 24. This they could not possibly do, for the ministration of Death, and Condemnation hindered. He that is under Condemnation by the Law, cannot, during that state, pass into Life. And yet to be under Condemnation is as impossible on the other side; for he that is justified, cannot at the same time be under Condemnation, Rom. 8. 1. John 5. 24. What remains then, but that during Life they must stick mid-way betwixt both, neither justified, nor condemned; and yet both so and so. Justification is our Life, and Condemnation our Death in Law: Betwixt these two which are privatively opposed, there can be no Medium of participation, and yet such a Medium you here fancy.
(1.) During Life they must hang mid-way between Justification and Condemnation; justify'd they could not be, ⟨p. 14⟩for Justification is the Souls passing from Death to Life, 1 John 3. 14. John 5. 24. This they could not possibly do, for the ministration of Death, and Condemnation hindred. He that is under Condemnation by the Law, cannot, during that state, pass into Life. And yet to be under Condemnation is as impossible on the other side; for he that is justified, cannot at the same time be under Condemnation, Rom. 8. 1. John 5. 24. What remains then, but that during Life they must stick mid-way betwixt both, neither justify'd, nor condemned; and yet both so and so. Justification is our Life, and Condemnation our Death in Law: Betwixt these two which are privatively oppos'd, there can be no Medium of participation, and yet such a Medium you here fancy.