A39674:664
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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Now let the Reader judge whether I have deserved such Tragical Complaints and dreadful Charges for inferring from these words, That the Ceremonial Law being by him pronounced a distinct Covenant from the Moral Law, which he makes all one with Adam's Covenant; ⟨p. 217⟩delivered at a distinct season, and in a distinct method; the Ceremonial Law with a Mediator, the Moral Law without a Mediator; the Ceremonial Law dedicated with blood and sprinkling, the Moral Law not so dedicated: let him judge (I say) whether I have wronged him in saying, that by his own confession, Circumcision being a part of this Ceremonial Law, it can therefore be no part of the Covenant of Works?
But Mr. Cary hath two things to say for himself.1 (1.) That in the same place he makes the Ceremonial Law no other than a Covenant of Works: And the wrong I have done him, is by not distinguishing (as he did) betwixt A Covenant of Works, and The Covenant of Works. Here it seems lies my guilt upon which this dreadful out-cry against me is made.
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But if I should chance to prove,1 that there never was, is, or can be any more than one Covenant of Works; and that any other Covenant which is distinguished from it (as he confesses the Ceremonial Law was) by a Mediator, and the blood of sprinkling, can be no part of that Covenant of Works: what then will become of Mr. C's distinction of A Covenant of Works, and The Covenant of ⟨p. 218⟩