A39674:700
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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(3.) You say it cannot be a Covenant of Grace, because it is contra-distinguished to the Righteousness of Faith, Rom. 4. 13.
The Law in that place is put strictly for the pure Law of Nature,1 and Metaleptically signifies the Works of the Law, which is a far different thing from the Law taken in that latitude wherein you take it. And is not this a pretty Argument, that because the promise to Abraham, and his Seed, was not through the Law, but through the Righteousness of Faith; therefore the Covenant of God made with Abraham, and his Seed, Gen. 17. cannot be a gracious, but a legal Covenant? This Promise mentioned Rom. 4. 13. was made to Abraham long before the Law was given by Moses: and Free-grace, not Abraham's legal Righteousness, was the impulsive cause moving God to make that Promise to Abraham, and to his Seed: and their enjoyment of the Mercies promised, was not to be through the Law, but through the Righteousness of Faith. By what rule of art this Scripture is alleged to prove God's Covenant with Abraham, Gen. 17. to be a Covenant of Works, I am utterly to seek. If it be only because Circumcision was added to it, that's answered over and over before; and you neither have, nor can reply to it.
The Law in that place is put strictly for the pure Law of Nature,1 and Metaleptically signifies the Works of the Law, which is a far different thing from the Law taken in that latitude wherein you take it. And is not this a pretty Argument, that because the promise to Abraham, and his Seed, was not through the Law, but through the Righteousness of Faith; therefore the Covenant of God made with Abraham, and his Seed,