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Reply to Philip Cary

by John Flavel

A careful theological response to Philip Cary's Baptist treatise *A Solemn Call*. Flavel defends the covenantal foundations of infant baptism against Cary's arguments that restrict the new covenant and its sign to professing believers alone. Through three principal positions, he examines the unity and conditionality of the covenant of grace, its extension to the children of believers, and the scriptural warrant for applying the covenant sign to infants. A carefully reasoned contribution to the late-17th-century debate between Presbyterian covenantal theology and emerging Baptist ecclesiology.
Chapters
18
Word count
32,033
Type
Treatise
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Table of contents

  1. 01 A Friendly Preface to the Author of the Solemn Call 2,259 words
  2. 02 Prolegomena 99 words
  3. 03 Prolegomena — Position 1 971 words
  4. 04 Prolegomena — Position 2 356 words
  5. 05 Prolegomena — Position 3 834 words
  6. 06 A Reply to Mr. Philip Cary's Solemn Call 1,730 words
  7. 07 Reply — Position 1 5,223 words
  8. 08 Reply — Position 2 832 words
  9. 09 Reply, Position 2 — Argument 1 685 words
  10. 10 Reply, Position 2 — Argument 2 557 words
  11. 11 Reply, Position 2 — Argument 3 1,415 words
  12. 12 Reply, Position 2 — Argument 4 895 words
  13. 13 Of the Conditionality of the New Covenant 1,131 words
  14. 14 Conditionality of the New Covenant — Argument 1 273 words
  15. 15 Conditionality of the New Covenant — Argument 2 401 words
  16. 16 Conditionality of the New Covenant — Argument 3 961 words
  17. 17 Conditionality of the New Covenant — Argument 4 772 words
  18. 18 Conditionality of the New Covenant — Argument 5 12,521 words
Front matter (1 section)

Title Page

Vindiciae Legis & Foederis: 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 Doctor 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.

Membra laxata inepta sunt ad sua munera obeunda, & gravissimo dolore corpus afficiunt. P. Martyr.
Cum consensu videtur deponi fraternitas. Aretius in Hebrews 13:1.

London, Printed for M. Wotton at the Three Daggers in Fleetstreet, 1690.

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