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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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(2.) I told you in my Vindiciae, &c. p. 49. that you were fain to cut Abraham's Covenant, Gen. 17. into two parts; and make the first to be the pure Covenant of Grace, which is the promissory part to the 9th verse; and the Restipulation (as you call it, p. 205.) to be as pure a Covenant of Works. Which I truly said was a bold Action; and in so calling it, I gave it a softer name than the nature of it deserved.
(2.) I told you in my Vindiciae, &c. p. 49. that you were fain to cut Abraham's Covenant, Gen. 17. into two parts; and make the first to be the pure Covenant of Grace, which is the promisory part to the 9th verse; and the Restipulation (as you call it, p. 205.) to be as pure a Covenant of Works. Which I truly said was a bold Action; and in so calling it, I gave it a softer name than the nature of it deserved.
The sum of what you reply to this,1 is, (1.) By denying the matter of fact, and charging me with misrepresentation; and in the next page confessing the whole Charge, saying, Though the Promise and the Restipulation, mentioned vers. 7, 8, 9. make but one and the same Covenant of Circumcision; yet there are two Covenants mentioned in that Context, the first between God and Abraham himself, vers. 2, 4. the other between God and Abraham, and his natural Posterity also, vers. 7, 8, 9, 10. The former you call a Covenant of Grace, the latter a Covenant of Works. And p. 81. you affirm, That after God had entered the ⟨p. 226⟩Covenant of Grace with Abraham, v. 2, 4. that Abraham himself was required to be circumcised by the Command of God, as a Token of the Covenant of Works. And then2 (after some unbecoming Scoffs for misplacing vers. 7, 8. where vers. 9, 10. should be; as also of