A39674:649
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That Covenant that is not of Faith, must needs be a Covenant of Works, yea, the very same for substance with that made with Adam.
But the Scripture is express, That the Law is not of Faith, Gal. 3. 12. Ergo.
The Law is considered two ways in Scripture.1 (1.) Largely, for the whole Mosaical Economy, comprehensive of the Ceremonial as well as Moral Precepts; and that Law is of Faith, as the Learned Turrettine hath proved by four Scripture Arguments, Pars secunda, p. 292, 293.* Because it contained Christ the Object of Faith, &c. Because it impelled men to seek Christ by Faith. Because it required that God be worshipped, which he cannot rightly be without Faith. And because Paul describes the Righteousness of Faith in those very words whereby Moses had declared the Precepts of the Law, Deut. 30. 11, 12, 13. Again, the Law in Scripture is taken strictly for the Moral Law only, considered abstractly from the promises of Grace, as the Legal Justiciaries understood it. These are two far different senses and acceptations of the Law. Your Major Proposition takes the Law in its large complex body, as appears by your 3d page. Your Minor Proposition, which you would confirm by Gal. 3. 12. takes the Law strictly ⟨p. 207⟩and abstractly, as it is set disjunctly from, yea in opposition to Faith and the Promises, and so there are two sorts of Law in your Argument, and consequently your Argument is fallacious, as all its fellows be, and runs (as I told you before) upon all four.