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A35308	A solemn call unto all that would be owned as Christ's faithful witnesses, speedily and seriously, to attend unto the primitive purity of the Gospel doctrine and worship, or, A discourse concerning baptism wherein that of infants is disproved as having no footing nor foundation at all in the Word of God, by way of answer to the arguments made use of by Mr. William Allen, Mr. Sidenham, Mr. Baxter, Dr. Burthogge, and others for the support of that practice : wherein the covenant made with Israel at Mount Sinai ... : together with a description of that truly evangelical covenant God was pleased to make with believing Abraham ... / by Philip Carey ...	Cary, Philip.	1690 (1690)	Wing C742; ESTC R31291	244,449	284

and the Law Written in Stones that was not so Dedicated How strangely doth he Confound and Obscure the word and truth of God which ought to have been cleared and distinctly to have been declared to those he had Preached or Written unto For first he seems to take it for granted that there was no other Covenant made with Israel at Sinai but what was Confirmed by Bloud And Secondly That that Covenant which wa● so Confirmed must of necessity have been Confirmed also by the Blood of Christ Typified thereby and therefore not a Covenant of Works But both these are no other than ungrounded suppositions that want a Foundation § 4. For first It hath been already proved That the Law Written in Stones had not been so much as received from God when the Ceremonial Covenant was so Confirmed And accordingly it was so far from being Confirmed by the Bloud of Christ that we do not read that it was ever Dedicated with any other sort of Bloud whatsoever It is indeed suggested that the Law Written in Stones by Gods own Finger had been also Written by Moses in the Book of the Covenant wherein the Statutes and Judgments were contained when the Bloud thereof was sprinkled on the People Since we are told Exod. 24. 3 4. That Moses came and told the People all the Words of the Lord and all the Judgments And Moses Wrote all the Words of the Lord and took the Book of the Covenant and Read in the Audience of the People and took the Blood and Sprinkled it on the People saying Behold the Blood of the Covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these Words But if we duly attend unto the Scope of the Spirit of God in these passages we shall find it utterly Improbable that the Ten Commandments that had been Written in Stones with Gods own Finger were at all contained in the Book of the Covenant when the Blood thereof was Sprinkled on the People Forasmuch as God afterwards calls up Moses into the Mount saying I will give thee Tables of Stone and a Law and Commandments which I have Written that thou mayest teach them Ver. 12. Which clearly Implies that the Ten Commandments which was the only matter contained in the two Tables of Stone had not been Written by Moses in the Book of the Covenant wherein the Statutes and Judgments were contained and which he had accordingly Read in the Audience of the People For then it had been altogether Improper to say I will give thee Tables of Stone and a Law and Commandments that thou mayest teach them Since according to this Reckoning Moses had already done it When we are told therefore that Moses came and told the People all the Words of the Lord and all the Judgments c. We are plainly to understand it according to Deut. 4. 13. 14. where having Informed us that the Lord himself declared unto them his Covenant which he commanded them to perform even Ten Commandments and he Wrote them upon two Tables of Stone He Expresly adds The Lord Commanded me saith he at that time to teach you Statutes and Judgments And accordingly Exod. 24. 3. Moses came and told the People all the Words of th● Lord and all the Judgments That is all the Statutes and all ●he Judgments not the Ten Commandments For that God himself had already declared unto them with his own Mouth So that it is evident that it was the Statutes and Judgments only that Moses had then in Commission to declare unto the People And accordingly it is as evident that it was the Statutes and Judgments only that were contained in the Book of the Covenant when the Blood thereof was sprinkled on the People Though afterwards it is plain that upon the Receiving of the two Tables of Stone wherein ●he Ten Commandments were Inserted he had a fresh Commission to teach them the Ten Commandments also as appears by Verse 12. And which we find was accordingly performed by him Deut. 5. in the Several Ten Branches or Particulars thereof § 5. It is therefore a great mistake for any to affirm that the Law written in Stones was not a Covenant of Works because confirmed by Blood and Sprinkling whereas when it comes to be duly examined there appears no such matter but instead of being proved thereby to be a Covenant of Grace it is the more convincingly proved to be as it is indeed no other than a Covenant of Works In which respect Mr. Sedgwick's forementioned Argument may more justly and truly be thus formed That Covenant that was not confirmed by the Blood of Christ which alone can cleanse us from all unrighteousness no nor so much as by the Blood of Bulls or Goats or Calves which was plainly typical thereof could not possibly be a Covenant of Grace but of Works But the Law written in Stones was so far from being confirmed by the Blood of Christ that it was never that we read of confirmed by any other sort of Blood whatsoever Therefore that Covenant could not possibly be a Covenant of Grace but of Worlds § 6. Secondly Whereas the Apostle Heb. 9. speaking of the Ceremonial Covenant which was dedicated by Blood and Sprinkling doth plainly represent it unto us under the denomination of the first Covenant that had a Worldly Sanctuary vers 1. Opposing it to Christ as the Figure to the Substance vers 9. Calling the Statutes and Judgments therein contained by the name of Carnal Ordinances and such as could not make him that did the Service Perfect as pertaining to the Conscience vers 10. Another Building vers 11. And the First Testament as it 's Contradistinguish'd from the New-Testament and Christ the true and only Sacrifice thereof vers 18 19. Besides what he had told us in the 8th Chap. concerning this same First or Old-Testament that it was of a faulty decaying vanishing nature vers 7 13. From all this it plainly appears that even the Ceremonial Covenant it self could be no other than a Covenant of Works as well as that written in Stones And accordingly the Apostle informs us Gal. 3. 10. That as many as are of the Works of the Law are under the Curse For it is written Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the Book of the Law to do them Which Book of the Law here spoken of must of necessity be the Book of the Covenant written by Moses himself wherein the Statutes and Judgments or the Ceremonial Precepts were contained In respect whereof it is evident that though the Sacrifices and other things thereunto belonging pointed at Christ and the way of Salvation by him yet such was the severity of the Divine Sanction thereunto annexed that if those under that Administration had wrought never so hard and kept themselves in a Path of perfect and Universal Obedience to the multitude of those Ceremonial Precepts all their days which was impossible yet if at last cast there happened

of Faith must of necessity according to the Apostles Reckoning be desirous of Returning to that old Bondage which Christ hath deliver'd us from and which the Apostle doth so earnestly Exhort us to avoid Gal. 5. 1. Stand fast therefore in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not Intangled again with the Yoke of Bondage § 8. But though Mount Sinai Covenant which answered to Jerusalem that then was is a Bondage Covenant The Gospel Covenant saith the Apostle which answereth to Jerusalem that is above is free which is the Mother of us all The Gospel Covenant therefore being a free Covenant It must not it ought not to be Blended or Mixt with that from Mount Sinai as if the one were the other and no difference at all to be made betwixt them onely in Respect of the different Degrees of the Discovery of Gospel Grace No saith the Apostle What saith the Scripture Cast out the Bond-Woman and her Son For the Son of the Bond-Woman shall not be Heir with the Son of the Free-Woman So then Brethren we are not Children of the Bond-Woman but of the Free In the 30. and 31. Verses of the forementioned 4th to the Galatians And this we must be And thus we must do as the Apostle here adviseth us unless we shall mingle Law and Gospel together Bondage and Liberty Works and Grace Death and Life And a ministration of Condemnation with that of Righteousness and Peace Which would be no other than as much as in us lies to overthrow the whole Gospel and to obscure darken and confound those truths that are of highest Importance And which ought therefore to be carefully and distinctly handled by us according to the different Services they are designed and appointed for SECT VIII BUT then we are yet further told by Mr. Sedgwick in his forementioned Discourse pag. 174. That that Covenant which was Confirmed by Bloud and Sprinkling which Typified the Bloud of Christ Gonfirming and Ratifying the Covenant was no Covenant of Works But the Covenant which God made then with the Israelites was Confirmed by Blood Exod. 24. 7. Moses took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the Audience of the People And they said All that the Lord hath said we will do and be Obedient Vers 8. And Moses took the Blood and Sprinkled it on the People And said Behold the Bloud of the Covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words Now this very place is quoted by the Apostle Heb. 9. 19. He Sprinkled both the Book and the People Vers 20. Saying This is the Bloud of the Testament which God hath Enjoyned you And expresly Interprets it and applies it to the Blood of Christ Vers 14. and Vers 23. And therefore that Covenant with that People was not a Covenant of Works which never was nor shall be Confirmed by the Bloud of Christ § 2. To which we Reply First That it is Evident that the Covenant the Bloud whereof Moses Sprinkled on the People in the forementioned Exod. 24. 7 8. Could not possibly be the Law Written in Stones which will appear in a diligent Examination of the words before and after Vers 3 4. Moses came and told the People all the words of the Lord and all the Judgments And all the People Answerd with one Voice and said All the words which the Lord hath spoken we will do And Moses Wrote all the words of the Lord and rose up early in the Morning and builded an Altar c. Vers 5. And be sent Young Men of the Children of Israel which offered burnt offerings and Sacrificed Peace offerings of Oxen unto the Lord Vers 6. And Moses took half of the Bloud and put it in Basons And half of the Bloud be Sprinkled on the Altar Vers 7. And he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the Audience of the People And they said All that the Lord hath said we will do and be Obedient Vers 8. And Moses took the Bloud and Sprinkled it on the People and said behold the Bloud of the Covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words Now that the Book of the Covenant here spoken of the Bloud whereof was thus Sprinkled on the People could not be the Law Written in Stones appears most evidently from the following words Vers 9. Then went up Moses and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and Seventy of the Elders of Israel And they saw the God of Israel c. Vers 12. And the Lord said unto Moses Come up to me into the Mount and be there And I will give thee Tables of Stone and a Law and Commandments which I have Written that thou mayst teach them Wherein first we cannot but observe That whereas the words of the Covenant the Bloud whereof was Sprinkled on the People Vers 8. are expresly said Vers 4. to be Written by Moses So on the other hand the Law Written in Stones is here expresly said to be Written by God himself And Secondly It is also as evident that Moses had not as yet so much as received the Law Written in Stones from God till after he had Sprinkled the Bloud of the forementioned Covenant wherein the Statutes and Judgments were contained upon the People So that the Law Written in Stones therefore could not possibly be the Covenant the Bloud whereof was so sprinkled but was indeed another Covenant and delivered at a distinct Season and in a distinct Method the one uttered and declared by ●he Mouth of God himself in the Audience of all the People the other delivered unto them by the Mouth and Ministration of Moses onely The one Written with Gods own Finger in the two Tables of Stone the other Written in a Book by the Hand of Moses which is accordingly here called the Book of the Covenant by way of distinction from the Tables of Stone From whence by the way it clearly appears That that Covenant which as Moses elsewhere assures us God himself with his own Immediate Mouth and Voice declared unto Israel and that in the Audience of all the People Deut. 4. 10 11 12 13. was in this as well as in other respects as much a Covenant of Works as that made with our first Parent For if the Covenant made with Adam had no Mediator so neither had this 'T is plain indeed that God made use of the Ministration of Moses in the delivery of the Ceremonial Covenant but not so in the Promulgation of this For this was both Written and declared Immediately by the Hand and Mouth of God himself § 3. But to return Whereas Mr. Sedgwick tells us That that Covenant with that People which was Confirmed by Bloud and Sprinkling which Typified the Blood of Christ Confirming and Ratifying the Covenant was not a Covenant of Works which never was nor shall be Confirmed by the Blood of Christ and makes no distinction thereon between the Ceremonial Covenant that was Dedicated with Bloud

to be never so small a transgression though in the least Circumstance the Curse of the Law presently took hold upon them and that without mercy For as James saith Whosoever shall keep the whole Law and yet offend in one Point he is guilty of all And accordingly the Curse of the Law was pronounced upon every one that continued not in all things therein contained to do them This is the true Scope and Tenor even of the Ceremonial Covenant it self to all under it that were not relieved by the Grace of the Gospel § 7. Wherefore though it is plain that the Law written in Stones and the Book wherein the Statutes and Judgments were contained were two distinct Covenants and delivered at distinct Seasons and in a distinct Method the one with the other without a Mediator the one dedicated with Blood and Sprinkling the other that we read of not so dedicated yet it is as clear from the Premises that they were both of the same Nature that is no other than a Covenant of Works and accordingly both now Repealed and that under the Denomination of the First or Old Covenant which was of a decaying vanishing nature Heb. 8. ult And accordingly though the Blood of the Legal Sacrifices wherewith the Ceremonial Covenant was dedicated was plainly Typical of the Blood of Christ yet forasmuch as the Apostle informs us it could not take away sins nor make the Comers thereunto perfect as pertaining to the Conscience Heb. 9. 9. Chap. 10. 1 4. That Covenant therefore which was dedicated only by the Blood of such Sacrifices could never be a Covenant of Grace properly so called which hath Christ alone for the Mediator thereof and was confirmed only by his Blood and Sufferings for us but of Works § 8. Besides If the Ceremonial Covenant which was thus dedicated by Blood and Sprinkling had been indeed a Covenant of Grace and confirmed also by the Blood of Christ why should it be Repealed as we know it was as well as the Law written in Stones which is said to be now done away Is it possible that a Covenant of Grace confirmed by the Blood of Christ should ever be Repealed Or why did God appoint the New Covenant to succeed it which was Really so Confirmed and which is also opposed thereunto as another Covenant and of a quite different Nature Unless we shall say that there were two Covenants of Grace Confirmed by the Blood of Christ the one whereof was of a faulty accaying vanishing Nature as the First Covenant is by the Spirit of God himself described which to affirm would be perfectly to Contradict the whole Scope of the Scriptures § 9. The Blood of those Sacrifices therefore wherewith the Ceremonial Covenant was dedicated together with the rest of the Types that were then afforded served only as an Example Figure and Shadow of Heavenly things They were not as the Apostle speaks The Heavenly things themselves Heb. 9. 23. For the Law saith he Heb. 10. 1 c. having a shadow of good things to come and not the very Image of the things can never with those Sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the Commers thereunto perfect For then they should not have ceased to be Offered because that the Worshippers once purged should have had no more Conscience of Sins But in these Sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of Sins every year For it is not possible that the Blood of Bulls and of Goats should take away Sins All those Sacrifices therefore could never amount to the value of the Blood of Christ And accordingly that Covenant though dedicated by Blood and Sprinkling was no other than a Covenant of Works for as much as it was not confirmed by the Blood of Christ For if it had it would have made the Commers thereunto Perfect as pertaining to the Conscience which it did not § 10. Besides the Apostle expresly tells us That Christ hath obtained a more Excellent Ministry than that of Moses by how much also he is the Mediator of a Better Covenant which was Established upon better Promises Heb. 8. 6. Which Better Covenant the Apostle doth plainly oppose unto the First or Old Covenant vers 7 8 9 13. From whence it plainly follows that Christ was not the Mediator of the First or Old Covenant unless we shall say that he was the Mediator of two Covenants a Better and a Worse And consequently it doth as plainly follow that the First Covenant was no other than a Covenant of Works since neither was Christ the Mediator of it nor did he ever shed his Blood for the Confirmation thereof SECT IX HAving thus far considered Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick's Arguments wherewith he labours to prove that the Sinai Covenant was not a Covenant of Works but of Grace We should next have considered Mr. Francis Roberts his Arguments also to the same purpose in his large Discourse upon the Covenants But that the most substantial part of them have been already dispatcht in the Answers we have returned to Mr. Sedgwick's Arguments Onely we cannot but take notice of two grand Absurdities which Mr. Roberts and all others who Assert that the Sinai Covenant was a Covenant of Faith do and cannot but unavoidably run into and fasten upon the Scriptures on that Hypothesis The first is this Whereas Mr. Roberts pretending to Answer several Objections which are urged by way of opposition to his forementioned Doctrine the Fourth Objection which he mentions pag. 769. of his forementioned Discourse runs thus § 2. Object 4. The Sinai Covenant is opposed by the Prophet Jeremy and by the Apostle Paul to the New Covenant and is said to be broken by the People of Israel Jer. 31. 31 32 c. Heb. 8. 8 9 10. Therefore it is not a Covenant of Faith which is everlasting and cannot be broken But a Covenant of works which is but Temporary and liable to be broken This is indeed a substantial Argument or Objection against what he Asserts But how substantially answered may appear by what follows For thus he returns thereunto These Premises saith he will not bear this Conclusion for first though the Sinai Covenant made with Israel when God brought them out of the Land of Egypt is said to be unlike or not according to the New Covenant yet it is not said either by the Prophet or Apostle to be unlike to the Covenant of Faith § 3. Reply But what a strange Evasion is this And whither will not Men run when left to themselves For is not the New Covenant a Covenant of Faith And therefore when the Sinai Covenant is opposed to the New Covenant is it not plainly opposed to the Covenant of Faith Or shall we make the New-Covenant and the Covenant of Faith opposite and Contradistinct the one from the other as Mr. Roberts plainly doth when he saith that though the Sinai Covenant is opposed to the New Covenant yet it is not opposed to the Covenant of Faith