A39674:702
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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(4.) Lastly, It cannot (say you) be a Covenant of Grace, because it's represented to us in Scripture as a Bondage-covenant, Acts 15. 10, &c. Gal. 5. 1.
'Tis time,1 I see, to make an end. Your discourse runs low, and dreggy. Do you think it is one and the same thing to say, That the Ceremonial Law was a yoke of bondage to them that were under it, and to say it was an Adam's Covenant? Are these two parallel distinctions in your Logic? Alas! Sir, there is a wide difference. The difficulty, variety, and chargeableness of those Ceremonies, made them indeed burdensome and tiresome to that People; but they did not make the Covenant, to which they were annexed, to become an Adam's Covenant of Works: for in the very next breath, vers. 11. the Apostle will tell you, they were saved; yea, and tells us, that we shall be saved even as they. So that either they that were under this yoke, were saved by Faith in the way of Free-grace, as we now are; or we must be saved in the way of legal Obedience, as they were. Take which you please, for one of them you must take. We shall be saved, even as they, Acts 15. 10, 11.
'Tis time,1 I see, to make an end. Your discourse runs low, and dreggy. Do you think it is one and the same thing to say, That the Ceremonial Law was a yoke of bondage to them that were under it, and to say it was an Adam's Covenant? Are these two parallel distinctions in your Logick? Alas! Sir, there is a wide difference. The difficulty, variety, and chargeableness of those Ceremonies, made them indeed burthensome and tiresome to that People; but they did not make the Covenant, to which they were annexed, to become an Adam's Covenant of Works: for in the very next breath, vers. 11. the Apostle will tell you, they were saved; yea, and tells us, that we shall be saved even as they. So that either they that were under this yoke, were saved by Faith in the way of Freegrace, as we now are; or we must be saved in the way of legal Obedience, as they were. Take which you please, for one of them you must take. We shall be saved, even as they,