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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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Or doth my mistaken Friend imagine, that God required this Perfection of Abraham, and his, as in the First Covenant he required it from Adam, and all his? viz. to be performed and maintained in his own strength, under penalty of the Curse; but now though Christ command perfection, yet what duty lies in any command, answerable strength for it lies in the Promise? Very well, and was it not so then? compare the Command, Deuter. 10. 16. Circumcise ⟨image 14⟩therefore the fore-skins of your hearts, with the answerable gracious Promise to enable them so to do, Deut. 30. 6. The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy Seed, to love the Lord thy God.
Or lastly, Did Circumcision, the Sign and Seal added to Abraham's Covenant, make it an Adam's Covenant of Works? That's equally impossible with the former: for no man, but such a daring Man as I am concerned with, will dare to say, that a Seal of the righteousness of Faith (as Circumcision was, Rom. 4. 11.) can make the Covenant, to which it is affixed (and which I have shown in all the other substantial parts, the very same with that we are now under) to become an Adam's Covenant of Works.
Or lastly, Did Circumcision, the Sign and Seal added to Abraham's Covenant, make it an Adam's Covenant of Works? That's equally impossible with the former: for no man, but such a daring Man as I am concerned with, will dare to say, that a Seal of the righteousness of Faith (as Circumcision was, Rom. 4. 11.) can make the Covenant, to which it is affixed (and which I have shewn in all the other substantial parts, the very same with that we are now under) to become an Adam's Covenant of Works.