A39697:87
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.
as that Star which appeared to the Wise Men directed their way to Christ. If there be any such relative promise belonging to Adam's Covenant in Paradise, as this which I plainly show you was made on Mount Sinai, be pleased to produce ⟨p. 18⟩it, and you end the Controversy but if you cannot (as you know you can not) then never say the legal Dispensation at Sinai, and the Covenant of Work with Adam in Paradise, are the very same Covenant. Secondly, Let us consider this Promise absolutely in it self, an• then I demand, was there Mercy, Relie• and Pardon contained in it for any pen• tent Sinner present, or to come? Ye• say you, it extends Relief to Penitent• after God shall gather them from a• their Captivities at the end of th• World; very Good. Then 'tis a ver• vigorous Promise of Grace, which no• only reaches 430 years backward, as fa• as the first Promise to Abraham; b• also extends its Reliefs and Comfort• many thousand years forwards, even t• the purest times of the Gospel, just before Christ's coming to Judgment; an• can such a Promise as this be denie• to be in it self a Gospel-Promise? Su• it can neither be denied to be such nor yet to be made upon Mount Sinai b• the Hand of Moses. This Dilemma is a• pinching as the former.
as that Star which appeared to the Wise Men directed their way to Christ. If there be any such relative promise belonging to Adam's Covenant in Paradise, as this which I plainly shew you was made on Mount Sinai, be pleased to produce