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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
Appendix 1 › Vindiciarum Vindex: OR, A REFUTATION OF THE Weak and Impertinent Re… › Absurdity I.
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That Great and Renowned Divine Mr. William Strong, 1gives four irrefragable Arguments to prove, that no man can stand under both these Covenants at the same time, which in co-ordination actually destroy and make void each other. If the First Covenant stand, there is no place for the Second; and if the Second stand, the first is made void. And this (saith he) will fully appear, if we consider the direct contrariety in the terms of those two Covenants. For (1.) the Righteousness of the first Covenant is in our selves; but the Righteousness of the Second is the Righteousness of another, 1 Joh. 5. 11. 12. (2.) In the Covenant of Works, acceptation is first of the Works, and afterwards of the Person; Gen. 4. 7. but in the Covenant of Grace, the acceptation ⟨p. 183⟩is first of the Person, and then of the Work, Gen. 4. 4. (3.) The First Covenant was a Covenant without a Priest, but the Second is a Covenant with a Priest. (4.) In the First Covenant there is matter of glorying, but in the Second there is none, Rom. 3. 27. So that these two can never consist, except you can compound, or reconcile these four Opposites in the justification of the same Person.
That Great and Renowned Divine Mr. William Strong, 1gives four irrefragable Arguments to prove, that no man can stand under both these Covenants at the same time, which in co-ordination actually destroy and make void each other. If the First Covenant stand, there is no place for the Second; and if the Second stand, the first is made void. And this (saith he) will fully appear, if we consider the direct contrariety in the terms of those two Covenants. For (1.) the Righteousness of the first Covenant is in our selves; but the Righteousness of the Second is the Righteousness of another,