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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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I. I shall clearly evince to the World, That Mr. Cary hath not been able to discharge and free his own Theses from the horrid Consequents, and gross Absurdities which I laid to their charge in my first Reply; but instead thereof, in this feeble and unsuccessful attempt to free the former, he hath entangled himself in more and greater ones. II. That he hath left my Arguments standing in their full strength against him. III. And then I shall confirm and strengthen my three Positions, which destroy the Cause he manages, by some further Additions of Scripture, Reason and Authorities, ⟨p. 176⟩which I hope will fully end this matter betwixt us.
But before I touch the Particulars, two things must be premised for the Reader's due information.
1. That the Controversy about the true nature of the Sinai Laws, both Moral and Ceremonial, complexly considered, is not that very Hinge upon which the Right of Believers Infants to Baptism depends: that stands as it did before, be the Sinai Laws what they will. We do not derive the Right of Infants from any other Law or Covenant, but that gracious Covenant which God made with Abraham, which was in being 430 years before Moses his Law;1 and was no way injured, much less disannulled, by the addition of it. If Abraham's Covenant be the same Covenant of Grace we are now under, the Right of Believers Infants to Baptism, is secured, whatever the Sinai Covenant prove to be. Which I speak not out of the least jealousy that Mr. Cary hath, or ever shall be able to prove it to be a pure Adam's Covenant of Works; but to prevent Mistakes in the Reader.
1. That the Controversie about the true nature of the Sinai Laws, both Moral and Ceremonial, complexly considered, is not that very Hinge upon which the Right of Believers Infants to Baptism depends: that stands as it did before, be the Sinai Laws what they will. We do not derive the Right of Infants from any other Law or Covenant, but that gracious Covenant which God made with Abraham, which was in being 430 years before Moses his Law;