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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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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 ⟨p. 188⟩it, as a Covenant of Works to them? or was it not? Was the Victory you speak of, a complete, or a partial one? If you say it was incomplete and partial, then you leave them (as I told you before you must) partly under the Promise, and partly under the Curse; justified in part, and condemned in part. But if you say, it was a complete and perfect Victory, then it utterly dissolved its obligation as a Covenant of Works; then they did not remain under two opposite Covenants, as you affirmed they did; but on their believing, changed their state with their Covenant, as we affirm they did.
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 ⟨p. 188⟩it, as a Covenant of Works to them? or was it not? Was the Victory you speak of, a compleat, or a partial one? If you say it was incompleat and partial, then you leave them (as I told you before you must) partly under the Promise, and partly under the Curse; justified in part, and condemned in part. But if you say, it was a compleat and perfect Victory, then it utterly dissolved its obligation as a Covenant of Works; then they did not remain under two opposite Covenants, as you affirmed they did; but on their believing, changed their state with their Covenant, as we affirm they did.
Secondly, If you say, it did not totally free them from the Curse of the Covenant of Works, but however prevailed so far that they were not actually damned by virtue of the Curse; then be pleased to answer me one Question more, How it was possible for them to be absolutely under the Curse of the Law (as you affirmed they were) and yet that Curse to be so superseded by the Covenant of Grace, as here you speak?