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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
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To this he only saith, p. 57. of his Reply, That the Law, even as it was a Covenant of Works, was a privilege inestimable, beyond what all others enjoyed; because the very Curses and Punishments annexed thereunto, in case of the least failure, were of excellent use to convince them of their sin and misery without Christ, and their necessity therefore of a Saviour; which was the proper work of the Law, as a Covenant of works; which advantage all other Nations wanting, it might well be numbered among the chief Privileges they were invested with.
To this he only saith, p. 57. of his Reply, That the Law, even as it was a Covenant of Works, was a privilege inestimable, beyond what all others enjoyed; because the very Curses and Punishments annexed thereunto, in case of the least faileur, were of excellent use to convince them of their sin and misery without Christ, and their necessity therefore of a Saviour; which was the proper work of the Law, as a Covenant of works; which advantage all other Nations wanting, it might well be numbred among the chief Privileges they were invested with.
But (1.) If the Law were intended by God, to be an Adam's Covenant to them (as Mr. C. saith it was) where then is the Privilege of God's Israel above other Nations? (2.) If their Privilege consisted in the subserviency of that Law to Christ (as he here intimates it did) then he yields the thing I contend for. For this being its chief scope and end, we do hence justly denominate it a Covenant of Grace, though more obscure and legally administered. And in this judgment most of our solid Divines concur. Mr. Charnock on the Attributes, p. 390. is clear and judicious in the point.