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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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But Circumcision was the Seal of the Righteousness of Faith, Rom. 4. 11. Ergo.
The sum of what he answers to this, p. 72, 73, &c. (as far as I can pick his true sense out of a multitude of needless words) is this. He confesses this Argument seems very plausible; but however, Abraham was a Believer before Circumcision; and tho indeed it sealed the Righteousness of Faith to him, yet it sealed it to him only as the Father of Believers: and denies that ever Jacob, or Isaac, or any other enrolled in that Covenant, were sealed by it; but to all the rest beside Abraham, it was rather a token of servitude ⟨p. 221⟩and bondage. This is the sum and substance of his Reply.
But,1 Sir, let me ask you two or three plain Questions. (1.) What is the reason you silently slide over the Question I asked you, p. 41. of my Vindiciae, &c? Did you find it an hot Iron, which you durst not touch? 'Tis like you did. My Question was this. Had Adam's Covenant a seal of the righteousness of faith annexed to it, as this had, Rom. 4. 11? The righteousness of faith is evangelical righteousness, and this Circumcision sealed. Say not it was to Abraham only that it sealed it, for 'tis an injurious restriction put upon the Seal of a Covenant which extended to the Fathers, as well as to Abraham: however, you admit that it sealed evangelical righteousness to Abraham: but I hope you will not say, that a Seal of the Covenant of Works (for so you make Circumcision to be) ever did, or could seal evangelical righteousness to any individual person in the World.