A39674:42
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. Next, thou hast here the Controversies moved by my Antagonist, first about the Mosaic Law complexly taken, which he boldly pronounces to be an Adam's Covenant of works. And secondly, about God's Covenant with Abraham, Gen. 17. which he also makes the same with that God made with Adam in Paradise; and affirms Circumcision (expressly called a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith) to be the Seal of the said Covenant of Works first made with Adam.
2. Next, thou hast here the Controversies moved by my Antagonist, first about the Mosaick Law complexly taken, which he boldly pronounces to be an Adam's Covenant of works. And secondly, about God's Covenant with Abraham, Gen. 17. which he also makes the same with that God made with Adam in Paradise; and affirms Circumcision (expresly called a Seal of the Righteousness of Faith) to be the Seal of the said Covenant of Works first made with Adam.
3. Finding my Adversary in the pursuit of his design, running into many Antinomian delirations, to the reproach and damage of the Cause he contends for; I thought it necessary to take the principal Errors of Antinomianism into examination, especially at such a time as this, when they seem to spring afresh, to the hazard of God's Truth, and the Churches Peace; wherein I have dealt with becoming-modesty and plainness, if haply I might be any way instrumental in my plain and home way of Argumentation, to detect the falsity and dangerous nature of those notions which some good men have vented; ⟨image 10⟩and preserve the sounder part of the Church from so dangerous a contagion.