A39674:1029
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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This Covenant of Grace made with Believers in Christ, is not the same, nor must it be confounded with the Covenant of Redemption made with Christ before the World began. They are two distinct Covenants; for in the Covenant of Grace, into which Believers are taken, there is a Mediator, and this Mediator is Christ himself; but in the other Covenant of Redemption there neither was, nor could be any Mediator, which manifestly distinguishes them. Besides, In the Covenant of Grace Christ bequeaths manifold and rich Legacies, as he is the Testator; but no man gives a Legacy to himself. This Covenant is really and properly made with every Believer ⟨p. 401⟩as he is a Member of Jesus Christ the Head; and they are truly and properly federates with God: the Covenant binds them to their Duties, and encourages them therein by promises of strength to be derived from Christ to enable them thereunto.
This Covenant of Grace made with Believers in Christ, is not the same, nor must it be confounded with the Covenant of Redemption made with Christ before the World began. They are two distinct Covenants; for in the Covenant of Grace, into which Believers are taken, there is a Mediator, and this Mediator is Christ himself; but in the other Covenant of Redemption there neither was, nor could be any Mediator, which manifestly distinguishes them. Besides, In the Covenant of Grace Christ bequeaths manifold and rich Legacies, as he is the Testator; but no man gives a Legacy to himself. This Covenant is really and properly made with every Believer ⟨p. 401⟩as he is a Member of Jesus Christ the Head; and they are truly and properly federates with God: the Covenant binds them to their Duties, and encourages them therein by promises of strength to be deriv'd from Christ to enable them thereunto.
(2.) We thankfully acknowledge, That the glory of the New Covenant is chiefly discovered in the Promises thereof: upon the best Promises it is established. And all the Promises are reducible to the Covenant. They meet, and centre in it as the Rivers in the Sea, or Beams in the Sun. But yet we cannot say, that nothing but Promises is contained in this Covenant: for there are Duties required by it, as well as Mercies promised in it.