A39674:683
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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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 Gen. 12. for Gen. 17. (whether by the Scribe, my Self, or Press, I cannot say; but in each place sufficient light is given to set you right in the scope and Argument of my Discourse) you tell us, That how harsh and unlikely soever it may seem to man's carnal reason, that the latter, to wit, the Covenant of Works made with Abraham, vers. 9, 10. must needs make void the Covenant of Grace made with him, vers. 2, 4. yet the Apostle gives a quite contrary resolution of it, Gal. 3. 17. And after all, p. 79. in return to my Argument, That the Circumcision of Abraham, and his Seed, vers. 9, 10. could not possibly be a condition of Adam's Covenant of Works from the nature of the act:3 because Paul himself circumcised Timothy, Act. 16. 1, 2, 3. and asserts it to be a part of his Liberty, Gal. 2. 3. 4. which could never be, if in the very nature of the act it had bound Timothy to keep the Law for justification; and had been contrary to the whole scope of the Apostle's