A39674:615
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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To supersede the Curse (though it be a Phrase I never met with before) if it signify any thing, it must signify this; That ⟨p. 189⟩the Covenant of Grace caused the Law to omit, forbear, or give over to curse that People any more. But did, or can the Law forbear or cease to curse those that are absolutely under it as a ministration of death and condemnation? Pray consult, Rom. 3. 19. and Gal. 3. 10. Are you aware what you say, when you place Believers absolutely under the Curse of the Law, and then talk of the New Covenant's victory over it; and after all this, leave them as you do, absolutely under the cursing power of the one; and still under the victorious grace of the other? For shame, my Friend, give up your absurd notion, and repent of this folly. I would not willingly shame you before the World; I did all that lay in me to prevent it. But however, Pudor est medicina pudoris, the only way you have left me to prevent your glorying in your shame, is this way, to make you ashamed of your vain-glory. As for that Scripture you allege to countenance your fancy, Rom. 5. 17, 20. you might to as good purpose have opened your Bible, and have taken the first Scripture that came to hand, and it would have done your Position less harm. For the Apostle's scope there, is to demonstrate ⟨p. 190⟩the perfection of the abounding Righteousness of Christ, for the full discharge of Believers from the guilt of sin, and curse of Adam's Covenant; and cuts the throat of your Position, which it is alleged to prove.
To supersede the Curse (though it be a Phrase I never met with before) if it signify any thing, it must signify this; That ⟨p. 189⟩the Covenant of Grace caused the Law to omit, forbear, or give over to curse that People any more. But did, or can the Law forbear or cease to curse those that are absolutely under it as a ministration of death and condemnation? Pray consult,