A39674:623
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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Secondly, You deny the Law was added to the Promise,1 and ask me why it might not be added to the first Covenant to re-enforce that? I answer, Because the scope of the place will not bear it, nor any good Expositor countenance such a fancy. You make the Sinai Law to be the same with that first Covenant, and by so expounding the Apostle, you make him say, either that the same thing was added to it self, (which must in your own Phrase, be by a Correspondency ⟨p. 196⟩of Identity) or else that there are two distinct Covenants of Works (when indeed there is but one) and that the latter was added to the former. This is your way of Expounding Scripture, when driven to a straight by dint of Argument. Nothing beside such a pure necessity, could drive you upon such an Absurdity.
Secondly, You deny the Law was added to the Promise,1 and ask me why it might not be added to the first Covenant to re-inforce that? I answer, Because the scope of the place will not bear it, nor any good Expositor countenance such a fancy. You make the Sinai Law to be the same with that first Covenant, and by so expounding the Apostle, you make him say, either that the same thing was added to it self, (which must in your own Phrase, be by a Correspondency ⟨p. 196⟩of Identity) or else that there are two distinct Covenants of Works (when indeed there is but one) and that the latter was added to the former. This is your way of Expounding Scripture, when driven to a streight by dint of Argument. Nothing beside such a pure necessity, could drive you upon such an Absurdity.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] posita, pro apposita, hoc est, Promissioni adjecta. Beza.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 posita, pro apposita, hoc est, Promissioni adjecta. Beza.