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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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It was added to the promise (saith Dr. Reynolds) by way of subserviency and attendance,1 the better to advance and make effectual the Covenant it self. Mr. Strong upon the two Covenants, saith, the Apostle's meaning is, that the Law was added as an Appendix to the Promise. But it may be you had rather hear Dr. Crisp's Exposition* than his; for you say, had it been added to the Promise, it would have given life. The Doctor will at once give you the true sense of the Text, and with it a full answer to your Objection. Though Life (saith he) be not the end of the Law, yet there are other sufficient uses of it requiring the promulgation thereof: It was published to be an Appendix to the Gospel▪ Gal. 3. 19. And this supposes, (1.) The priority of the Gospel to the Law. (2.) The principality of ⟨p. 197⟩the Promise of Life by Christ, above the Law. (3.) The Consistence of the Law and Gospel. They may well stand one by another, as an House, and the addition to it may. That it was with such an intention added to the Promise, I have met with no Man that had front enough to deny or scruple it before you. And that the Jews did mistake its chief scope and use, from whence we denominate it a Covenant of Grace, the generality of Godly and Learned Divines constantly affirm. See Mr. Anth. Burgess de Lege, p. 227. Bolton's Bounds, p. 160, 161. Mr. Samuel Mather on the Types, p. 11. with multitudes more, whose citations would even weary the Reader. And what you urge from Mr. Poole's Annotations, on 2 Cor. 3. 6, 7. it makes nothing at all to your purpose: For it is manifest the Annotator there, takes the Moral Law in it self, strictly taken, and as set in opposition to the Gospel, which it never was since the Fall, but by the ignorance and infidelity of unregenerate Men.
It was added to the promise (saith Dr. Reynolds) by way of subserviency and attendance,1