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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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To the same purpose, saith that Excellent Mr. Samuel Bolton. 1If the Law were a Covenant of Works, then were the Jews under a different Covenant from us, and so none of them were saved, which the Apostle gainsays, Acts 15. 11. or else they were both under a Covenant of Works, and a Covenant of Grace. But that they could not be; they are utterly inconsistent▪ Ergo. And thus all sound Divines speak. I may therefore say of Mr. Cary's Position, as Ruveus before me did, omnem absurditatem excedere videtur, it seemeth to exceed all Absurdities. A man may more rationally suppose two Natures and essential Forms in one Body, and place the same thing under divers Species in the predicament of substance: yea, 'twere more ⟨p. 184⟩tolerable to affirm, That ex duobus entibus per se fit unum ens per se, than to place any (as Mr. C. places all) of God's People under two opposite Covenants. If Mr. C. were absolutely under the condemnation of the Law, would he not be purely justified, think you? Yet he places Abraham, Moses, and all Believers with them, absolutely under the severest condemnation of the Law, and the pure Gospel•Covenant, at once.
To the same purpose, saith that Excellent Mr. Samuel Bolton. 1If the Law were a Covenant of Works, then were the Iews under a different Covenant from us, and so none of them were saved, which the Apostle gainsays, Acts 15. 11. or else they were both under a Covenant of Works, and a Covenant of Grace. But that they could not be; they are utterly inconsistent▪ Ergo. And thus all sound Divines speak. I may therefore say of Mr. Cary's Position, as Ruveus before me did, omnem absurditatem excedere videtur, it seemeth to exceed all Absurdities. A man may more rationally suppose two Natures and essential Forms in one Body, and place the same thing under divers Species in the predicament of substance: yea, 'twere more ⟨p. 184⟩