A39674:1025
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and…
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made public, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made publick, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.
London: printed by R. Roberts for Tho. Cockerill, 1691
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Refutation.
(1.) The confounding of distinct Covenants, leads them into this Error; we acknowledge there was a Covenant properly made with Christ alone, which we call the Covenant of Redemption. This Covenant indeed, though it were made for us, yet it was not made with us. It had its Condition, and that Condition was laid only upon Christ: viz. That he should assume our Nature, and pour out his Soul unto death, which Condition he was solely concerned to perform; but beside this, there is a Covenant of Grace made with him, and with all Believers in him: with him primarily as the Head, with them as the Members, who personally come into this Covenant, when they come into union with him by Faith. This Covenant of Grace is not made with Christ alone, personally considered, but with Christ, and all that are his, mystically considered, and is properly made ⟨p. 400⟩with all Believers in Christ; and therefore it is called their Covenant, Zech. 9. 11. As for thee also, by the blood of thy Covenant I have sent forth thy Prisoners out of the Pit wherein is no water. So when God entered into the Covenant of Grace with Abraham, Gen. 17. 7. I will establish my Covenant (saith he) between me and thee, thy Seed after thee. So when he took the People of Israel into this Covenant, Ezek. 16. 8. I sware unto thee (saith he) and entered into a Covenant with thee, and thou becamest mine.