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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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I will not be tempted to expose my Neighbour to derision for this his strange Answer;1 but rather propound two sober Queries to him, and the Reader, viz. (1.) What Orthodox Divines he ever met with, and what are their names, who are forced to comprise perfect doing, with the curse for non-performance, under the same Covenant with believing: and so make the two opposite Covenants to be specifically one and the same? Name your Men, with their Books and Pages; or retract with shame and sorrow what you have here abusively affirmed of them. Cameron indeed makes it a subservient Covenant; the most a true, though obscure Covenant of Grace; but none comprise Adam's Covenant with its Curse, in the New Covenant. (2.) Whether it be imaginable, That the same Absurdity can follow from their Doctrine, that make the whole complex body of the Sinai Law a Covenant of Grace, though more obscure, and so place all the People of God in those Ages under it▪ as does necessarily follow his Doctrine, who makes it a ⟨p. 186⟩pure Adam's Covenant of Works, and places the Church of God absolutely under the curse of it, and also under the pure Covenant of Grace at the same time? If Grace and Grace (how different soever in degrees of manifestation) be as opposite and repugnant, as Grace and Works, as Justification and Condemnation are, 'tis time for me to lay down my Pen; for I have certainly lost my Understanding to guide it any further.
I will not be tempted to expose my Neighbour to derision for this his strange Answer;1 but rather propound two sober Queries to him, and the Reader, viz. (1.) What Orthodox Divines he ever met with, and what are their names, who are forced to comprize perfect doing, with the curse for non-performance, under the same Covenant with believing: and so make the two opposite Covenants to be specifically one and the same? Name your Men, with their Books and Pages; or retract with shame and sorrow what you have here abusively affirmed of them. Cameron indeed makes it a subservient Covenant; the most a true, though obscure Covenant of Grace; but none comprize Adam's Covenant with its Curse, in the New Covenant. (2.) Whether it be imaginable, That the same Absurdity can follow from their Doctrine, that make the whole complex body of the Sinai Law a Covenant of Grace, though more obscure, and so place all the People of God in those Ages under it as does necessarily follow his Doctrine, who makes it a