A39674:655
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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and after this, should send forth his Officers to attach, imprison, examine, convince, arraign, threaten and condemn them: is he now contrary to himself? hath he repented of his Mercy? No, but he is unwilling to lose his Mercy, desirous to have the honour of his Mercy acknowledged unto him. The same is the Case between God and us. To Abraham he made a promise of Mercy and Blessedness to all that would plead interest in it, for the remission of their Sins; but men were secure and heedless of their Estate,1 &c. Hereupon the Lord published by Moses a severe and terrible Law; yet in all this, God doth but pursue his first purpose of mercy, and take a course to make his Gospel accounted worthy of all acceptation; which clears the general point, That God in the publication of the Law by Moses on Mount Sinai, had none but Merciful and Evangelical Intentions. And once more; The Law was not published by Moses on Mount Sinai, as it was given to Adam in Paradise, 2to justify, or to save men. And p. 385. it is not given, ex primari• intentione, to condemn men. In consequence to ⟨p. 213⟩all which he saith, p. 388, 389. that to preach the Law alone by it self, is to pervert the use of it; neither have we any power or commission so to do. It was published as an Appendant to the Gospel, and so must it be preached. It was published in the hand of a Mediator, and must be preached in the hand of a Mediator. It was published Evangelically, and it must be so preached.
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See how this agrees now with p. 173. of your Call, and how the several parts of the discourse of this sound and eminent Doctor (which I have been forced to sum up and contract) do abundantly confute your vain Notions of the Law, and cut the very nerves of your best Arguments, if they had any nerves in them: for indeed it is moles absque nervis: