A39674:1030
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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(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.
(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 center in it as the Rivers in the Sea, or Beams in the Sun. But yet we cannot say, that nothing but Promises is contain'd in this Covenant: for there are Duties required by it, as well as Mercies promised in it.
Nor may we say, That those Duties required by it, are required only to be performed by Christ, and not by us; but they are required to be performed by us in his strength. Nor is it Christ that repents, and believes for us, but we our selves are to believe and repent in the strength of his Grace. And till we do so actually in our own persons, we have no part or portion in the Blessings and Mercies of this Covenant. If Christ by believing ⟨p. 402⟩for us, give us an actual Right and Title to the Promises and Blessings of the New Covenant, then it will unavoidably follow,