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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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(2.) But you have one Evasion more, p. 7. where you say, That how harsh and dreadful soever the Terms or Conditions of the Legal Covenant were to those that were under it, as Moses, and the whole body of the Israelites, then were; yet the grace of the Gospel-Covenant far superseded, and was by far more victorious, powerful, and efficacious, Rom. 5. 17, 20.
Worse and worse.1 Your Discourse mends like sower Ale in Summer. Here you fancy the two Covenants (under which you place the whole Church of God) to be in a conflict one with the other; Condemnation and Justification struggling one with another, as I told you before they would: but however, the Grace of the New Covenant prevails at last, and gets the victory over the Covenant of Works. Very good; but then pray, Sir, if you please, answer me a plain Question or two at your leisure.
Worse and worse.1 Your Discourse mends like sower Ale in Summer. Here you fancy the two Covenants (under which you place the whole Church of God) to be in a conflict one with the other; Condemnation and Justification strugling one with another, as I told you before they would: but however, the Grace of the New Covenant prevails at last, and gets the victory over the Covenant of Works. Very good; but then pray, Sir, if you please, answer me a plain Question or two at your leisure.
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First, How far did the Covenant of Grace prevail against the Covenant of Works? Was it so far prevalent and victorious as utterly to vanquish and disannul