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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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he saith, he hath proved that it was the same with Adam's Covenant in both respects, that is, intentionally, as well as materially considered. And once more, p. 20. he expressly denies that the Law was added as an Appendix to the Promise; calls that a crude assertion of mine; and asks me, Why it might not be added as an Appendix rather to the first Covenant of Works, to re-enforce that? And after all, gushes out many slighting and opprobrious terms upon me, which I will not throw back again, but rather leave him to reconcile himself with himself.
he saith, he hath proved that it was the same with Adam's Covenant in both respects, that is, intentionally, as well as materially considered. And once more, p. 20. he expresly denies that the Law was added as an Appendix to the Promise; calls that a crude assertion of mine; and asks me, Why it might not be added as an Appendix rather to the first Covenant of Works, to re-inforce that? And after all, gushes out many slighting and opprobrious terms upon me, which I will not throw back again, but rather leave him to reconcile himself with himself.
I shall only ask Mr. Cary a sober Question or two, instead of Recriminations, and rendering reviling for reviling.
I shall only ask Mr. Cary a sober Question or two, instead of Recriminations, and rendring reviling for reviling.
First, How the Jews were right enough in reference to the true nature of the Law, as it was a Covenant of Works, and yet out in respect of its proper use and intention, which was not, that any should attain unto Life and Righteousness ⟨p. 195⟩by it, but to convince them of Sin, and of the necessity of a Saviour; and yet the Law be a Covenant of Works, intentionally, as well as materially considered; and that in respect of God's special designation and appointment? If God designed and appointed it in his Sinai dispensation, to be to them an Adam's Covenant of Works, then certainly they were not out (as you say they were) when they sought Righteousness by the works of it; nor could that mistake of theirs be the ground of the Controversy betwixt the Apostle and them: For it seems it was no mistake, being by God's intention, as well as its own primitive nature, promulged at Sinai, as a true Adam's Covenant.