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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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This Argument or Reason can never conclude:1 because as God never required of Abraham, and his Children, personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience to the whole Law for life, as he did of Adam; so the death, or cutting off, spoken of here, seems to be another thing from that threatened to Adam. Circumcision (as I told you before) was appointed to be the discriminating Sign betwixt Abraham's Seed, and the Heathen World: and the wilful neglect thereof is here threatened with cutting off by Civil or ⟨p. 234⟩Ecclesiastical Excommunication from the Commonwealth, and Church of Israel, as Luther, Calvin, Paraeus, Musculus, &c. expounds; not by death of Body and Soul, as was threatened to Adam, without place for repentance, or hope of mercy.
This Argument or Reason can never conclude:1 because as God never required of Abraham, and his Children, personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience to the whole Law for life, as he did of Adam; so the death, or cutting off, spoken of here, seems to be another thing from that threatned to Adam. Circumcision (as I told you before) was appointed to be the discriminating Sign betwixt Abraham's Seed, and the Heathen World: and the wilful neglect thereof is here threatned with cutting off by Civil or ⟨p. 234⟩Ecclesiastical Excommunication from the Commonwealth, and Church of Israel, as Luther, Calvin, Paraeus, Musculus, &c. expounds; not by death of Body and Soul, as was threatned to Adam, without place for repentance, or hope of mercy.
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(2.) You say Abraham's Covenant could not be a Covenant of Faith, because Faith was not reckoned to Abraham for Righteousness in Circumcision, but in Uncircumcision,