A39674:593
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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First, That Abraham, and his believing Posterity, were bound by the very nature and act of Circumcision to keep the whole Law in their own persons in order to their Justification and Salvation, as perfectly and perpetually, and under the same penalty for the least failure, as Adam was to keep the Law in Paradise.
Secondly, It must be further proved, That Abraham, and all his believing Offspring, who stood with him under that Covenant, whereof Circumcision was the initiating Sign, were all saved in a different way from that in which Believers are now saved under the Gospel: for so it must be, if the addition of Circumcision made it unto them an Adam's Covenant of Works. But this would be a direct contradiction to the words of the Apostle, speaking of them who were under ⟨p. 178⟩the Covenant of Circumcision, Acts 15. 11. But we believe, that through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, we shall be saved even as they. If he say, they stood indeed under that Covenant, as a pure Covenant of Works, but were saved by another Covenant; and so for many Ages the Church of God stood absolutely under the Covenant of Works, and at the same time under the pure Covenant of Grace; the one altogether absolute and free, the other wholly conditional: and though these two be in their own natures inconsistent and destructive of each other, yet so it was, that all the Saints for many Ages were absolutely under the one, and yet purely under the other: shall I be then censured for saying he speaks pure contradiction?
Secondly, It must be further proved, That Abraham, and all his believing Offspring, who stood with him under that Covenant, whereof Circumcision was the initiating Sign, were all saved in a different way from that in which Believers are now saved under the Gospel: for so it must be, if the addition of Circumcision made it unto them an Adam's Covenant of Works. But this would be a direct contradiction to the words of the Apostle, speaking of them who were under ⟨p. 178⟩