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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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Reader, I shall appeal to thee, if thou be wise and impartial, Whether any man that understands the Covenant of God renewed with Abraham (which is the grand Charter, by which we and our Children hold and enjoy the most invaluable Privileges) can endure to see it dissolved and ⟨image 13⟩utterly destroyed, by making it an abolished Adam's Covenant of Works; and stand by as an unconcerned Spectator, when challenged and provoked to speak in defence thereof?
Is there any thing found in God's Covenant with Abraham, Gen. 17. to make it an abolished Covenant of Works, which doth not as injuriously bear upon, and strike at the very life of the Covenant of Grace in the last and best Edition of it, under which the whole Church of God now stands? What is that thing (I would fain know) in God's Covenant with Abraham? Is it the Promissory part of it, I will be a God unto thee, and to thy Seed after thee, Gen. 17. 7? God forbid: for the essential and sweetest part of the New Covenant is contained in that Promise, Jer. 31. 33. Heb. 8. 10. Yet thou wilt find my Antagonist here forced to assert, God may become a Peoples God in a special manner by virtue of the abolished Covenant of Works; and such he makes this Covenant to be.
Is there any thing found in God's Covenant with Abraham, Gen. 17. to make it an abolished Covenant of Works, which doth not as injuriously bear upon, and strike at the very life of the Covenant of Grace in the last and best Edition of it, under which the whole Church of God now stands? What is that thing (I would fain know) in God's Covenant with Abraham? Is it the Promissory part of it, I will be a God unto thee, and to thy Seed after thee,