A39674:616
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 have stood the longer upon the clearing of this first Point; because this being fully cleared, it runs through and clears the whole Controversy betwixt us. For now it will be evident to all, That neither Abraham's, nor Moses his Covenant (complexly taken, as Mr. Cary takes it) could possibly be for this reason, an Adam's Covenant of Works; and if not a Covenant of Works, then how dark or legal soever the Dispensations of them were, they must needs be the same Covenant of Grace, for substance, under which we are, and so the main Controversy betwixt us is hereby at an end.
I know not how many Covenants of Works, or how many of Grace, Mr. C. fancies there are; But Orthodox Divines constantly affirm*, That as there never were but two ways of Life to mankind, the one before the Fall, by perfect doing▪ the other after the Fall, by sincere believing: So answerably there can be but two Covenants betwixt God and ⟨p. 191⟩Mankind, viz. the Covenant of Works, and the Covenant of Grace. The last of which hath, indeed, been more obscurely Administered, and in that respect is called the Old Covenant; yet that and the New are essentially but one Covenant: And the Church of God, which for many Ages stood under that Old Covenant, did not stand under it as an Adam's Covenant, or the First Covenant of works, for the undeniable Reasons above given. And therefore Abraham's Covenant, from whence we derive our Children's Title to Baptism, must of necessity be the very same Covenant for substance with this New Covenant, which all Abraham's believing off-spring, and their Infant-seed are now under. And in proving this one point, I have sufficiently confuted both Mr. C's Solemn Call, and this his feeble vindication of it, together.
I know not how many Covenants of Works, or how many of Grace, Mr. C. fancies there are; But Orthodox Divines constantly affirm*