A39697:99
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.
(6ly.) It seems exceeding probable from Acts 7. 37, 38. That the Sinai Covenant was delivered to Moses by Jesus Christ, there called the Angel. This is he that was in the Church in the Wilderness, with the Angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our Fathers, who received the lively Oracles to give unto us. Now, if Christ himself were the Angel, and the Precepts of the Law delivered by him to Moses were the Lively Oracles of God, as they are there expressly affirmed to be, then the Law delivered on Mount Sinai cannot be a pure Adam's Covenant of Works: For it is never to be imagined that Jesus Christ himself should deliver to Moses such a Covenant, directly opposite to all the ends of his future Incarnation; and that those Precepts (which if they were of the same nature, and revived to the same end, at which Adam's Covenant directly aimed) should be called the Lively Oracles of God: When contrariwise, upon your Supposition they could be no other than a Ministration of Condemnation and Death: But that they were Lively Oracles, viz. in their Design and Intention, is plain in the Text; and that they were delivered to Moses by Jesus ⟨p. 30⟩Christ, the Angel of the Covenant, seems more than probable, by comparing it with the former Verses.
(6ly.) It seems exceeding probable from Acts 7. 37, 38. That the Sinai Covenant was delivered to Moses by Jesus Christ, there called the Angel. This is he that was in the Church in the Wilderness, with the Angel that spake to him in the Mount Sinai, and with our Fathers, who received the lively Oracles to give unto us. Now, if Christ himself were the Angel, and the Precepts of the Law delivered by him to Moses were the Lively Oracles of God, as they are there expresly affirm'd to be, then the Law delivered on Mount Sinai cannot be a pure Adam's Covenant of Works: For it is never to be imagined that Jesus Christ himself should deliver to Moses such a Covenant, directly opposite to all the ends of his future Incarnation; and that those Precepts (which if they were of the same nature, and revived to the same end, at which Adam's Covenant directly aimed) should be called the Lively Oracles of God: When contrarywise, upon your Supposition they could be no other than a Ministration of Condemnation and Death: But that they were Lively Oracles, viz. in their Design and Intention, is plain in the Text; and that they were delivered to Moses by Jesus