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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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If there be but one Covenant made betwixt God and Abraham in that 17th of Genesis, 1and you make two, not only numerically, but specifically distinct, yea, opposite Covenants of it; then you boldly cut God's Covenant with Abraham in two, and are guilty of an insufferable abuse of the Covenant of God. But the former is true: therefore so is the latter. You say, p. 223, 224. of your Call, That at the second and fourth Verses God made a Covenant with Abraham himself alone; but at verse 7. he makes the Covenant of Circumcision betwixt himself and Abraham, and his natural Seed also; and saith, vers. 7. And, or (according to the old Translation) ⟨p. 228⟩Moreover; as proceeding to speak of another Covenant than what he had been before insisting on.
- 1Reply.
Now I would soberly ask, (1.) What Vouchers you have amongst Expositors for this your rash and daring Assertion? I find not a man that hath trod this path before you, and I hope none will be hardy enough to follow. You certainly stand alone, and 'tis pity but you should. (2.) Where do you find the just parts of the New Covenant in the 2d and 4th verse? Is it not altogether promissory on God's part, without any restipulation on Abraham's? for you have excluded v. 1, 9, 10. from that which you call God's Covenant of Grace with him. And then for your Covenant of Works, vers. 7, 8, 9, 10. you make this to be the Promissory part of that Covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy Seed after thee; and again vers. 8. I will be their God. Was ever such a Promise as this, found in a Covenant of Works? Tell me what-ever God said more in the New Covenant, than he saith here? Oh blessed Covenant of Works, if this be such! (3.) Tell me whether you can satisfy your own Conscience with the Answers you have given to my first Argument against your paradoxical, ⟨p. 229⟩