A39674:694
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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Your Reply to this is, That when I have substantially proved that the Sinai Covenant, as it contained the Passover, Sacrifices, Types and Appendages, under which were veiled many spiritual Mysteries relating to Christ, and mortification of sin by his Grace and Spirit, to be no Covenant of Works, but a Gospel-covenant; you will then grant with me, that the present Argument is convincing; p. 96, 97. of your Reply.
Your Reply to this is, That when I have substantially proved that the Sinai Covenant, as it contained the Passeover, Sacrifices, Types and Appendages, under which were vailed many spiritual Mysteries relating to Christ, and mortification of sin by his Grace and Spirit, to be no Covenant of Works, but a Gospel-covenant; you will then grant with me, that the present Argument is convincing; p. 96, 97. of your Reply.
Sir,1 I take you for an honest man: and every honest man will be as good as his word. Either I have fully proved against you, that the Sinai Law (taken in that latitude you here express it) is not an Adam's Covenant of Works, or I have not. If I have not, doubtless you have reserved your more pertinent and strong Replies in your own breast, and trust not to those weak and silly ones which you see here baffled, and have only served to involve you in greater Absurdities than before. But if you have brought forth all your strength (as in such a desperate strait no man can imagine but you would) then I have fully proved the point against you. And if I have, I expect you to be ingenuous and candid in making good your word, That ⟨p. 233⟩you will then grant with me, that this Argument is convincing to the end for which it was designed. And so I hope we have fully issued the Controversy between us, relating to God's Covenant with Abraham. You have indeed four Arguments, p. 59, 60, 61, 62. of your Reply, to prove Abraham's Covenant a Covenant of Works of the same nature with Adam's Covenant.
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