A39674:596
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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And this brings me to my first general Head, viz.
I. First, That Mr. Cary hath not been able to free his Thesis from this borrid absurdity; but by struggling to do it, hath (according to the nature of Errors) entangled himself in more and greater ones.
I. First, That Mr. Cary hath not been able to free his Thesis from this borrid absurdity; but by strugling to do it, hath (according to the nature of Errors) entangled himself in more and greater ones.
Mr. Cary, in p. 174, 175. of his Solemn Call, was by me reduced to this Absurdity, which he there owns in express words, That Moses, and the whole body of the People of Israel, were absolutely under (without the exception of any) the severest penalties of a dreadful Curse; and that the Sinai Covenant could be no other than a Covenant of Works, a ministration of death and condemnation; and yet at the same time, both Moses, and all the Elect, were under a pure Covenant of Gospel-grace: And if these were two contrary Covenants in themselves, and just opposite the one to the other, as indeed they were, we have nothing to say, but with the Apostle, O the depth, &c.