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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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But lest he should take this for the only Absurdity proved upon him, tho' it be tiresome to me, and must be ungrateful to him; give me leave to touch one more among many; and that the rather, because I make great use of it in this Controversy, and Mr. Cary both yields and denies it. If his own words ⟨p. 192⟩be the Messengers of his meaning, either he, or I, must mistake their errand.
I had in my Prolegomena, distinguished of the Law, as strictly taken for the Ten Commandments; and more largely and complexly taken, as including the Ceremonial Law. The former I considered according to God's intention and design in the promulgation of it, which was to add it as an Appendix to the Promise, Gal. 3. 19. And the carnal Jews mistaking and perverting the end of the Law, and making it to themselves a Covenant of Works, by making it the very Rule and Reason of their justification before God, Rom. 9. 32, 33. Rom. 10. 3. I told him, That the Controversy depended upon this double sense of the Law, for that it ought not to be denominated from the abused and mistaken End of it; but from God's chief scope and design in the promulgation of it, which was to add it as an Appendix to the Promise, as the word [Greek or Hebrew] there imports; and so must be published with Evangelical purposes. Let us now hear Mr. C's sense of this matter. ⟨p. 193⟩In his Call, p. 131. he yields the distinction in these words. | In his Reply, p. 43. proving the Law to be a Covenant of Works, from Rom. 10. 5. he saith, The Jews were right enough in reference to the true nature of the Law, That it was a Covenant of Works, &c. though they were out in respect of its proper use and intention, which was not, that any should attain unto Life and Righteousness thereby; but to show them the nature of Sin, and the Holiness and Righteousness of God; to convince them of their sin and misery without Christ, and their necessity of a Saviour; which they being ignorant of, and still going about to establish ther own Righteousness which was of the Law, and