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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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from whence it evidently appears,1 That Circumcision in its own nature did not simply and absolutely oblige men to the keeping of Moses his Law for Righteousness, but only from the intention or opinion of the Person. And though you call this my corrupt gloss upon the Text, therein you grossly abuse me. The gloss is neither corrupt, nor my own; but the unanimous Judgment of all sound Expositors of the Text, as you might see, were you capable of seeing it, in a Collection of their Judgments upon that Text, Gal. 5. 2, 3. in Mr. Poole's Synopsis. And tho Estius thinks the Act of Circumcision might be obligatory to the Gentiles, to whom the Law was not given; yet it was not so to the Jews that believed, and such was Timothy. But why do I refer you to the Judgment of Commentators? the very reason of it may convince you: For,
from whence it evidently appears,1 That Circumcision in its own nature did not simply and absolutely oblige men to the keeping of Moses his Law for Righteousness, but only from the intention or opinion of the Person. And though you call this my corrupt gloss upon the Text, therein you grosly abuse me. The gloss is neither corrupt, nor my own; but the unanimous Judgment of all sound Expositors of the Text, as you might see, were you capable of seeing it, in a Collection of their Judgments upon that Text, Gal. 5. 2, 3. in Mr. Poole's Synopsis. And tho Estius thinks the Act of Circumcision might be obligatory to the Gentiles, to whom the Law was not given; yet it was not so to the Iews that believed, and such was Timothy. But why do I refer you to the Judgment of Commentators? the very reason of it may convince you: For,
- 1Teneter non simpli•itèr & absolutè ex genere operis, sed ex intentione operantis, & suppositâ tali opinion, &c. Poole in loc.Teneter non simpli•itèr & absolutè ex genere operis, sed ex intentione operantis, & suppositâ tali opinione, &c. Poole in loc.