A39674:706
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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And that Christ was the main Subject of that their Ministry, is plain, because the Apostle saith in the Verse before my Text, That all that Administration was but a Shadow of Christ, and a Figure for the present to represent him, as he doth express in the 9th Chapter of this Epistle. And the truth is, the usual general Gospel that all the Jews had, was in their Sacrifices and Priestly Observations.—
And that Christ was the main Subject of that their Ministry, is plain, because the Apostle saith in the Verse before my Text, That all that Administration was but a Shadow of Christ, and a Figure for the present to represent him, as he doth express in the 9th Chapter of this Epistle. And the truth is, the usual general Gospel that all the Iews had, was in their Sacrifices and Priestly Observations.—
So that it's plain, the administration of their Covenant was an administration of Grace, and absolutely distinct ⟨p. 239⟩from the administration of the Covenant of Works. And what can be said more absolutely and directly contradictory to your Position, than this is? And yet again, p. 250. speaking to that Scripture, Heb. 8. 8. where the Apostle distinguishes of a better and a faulty, of First and Second; he saith, Finding fault with them, The days come, when I will make a new Covenant with the House of Israel, and with the House of Judah, not according to the Covenant I made with their Fathers, when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the Land of Egypt; and (as Jeremiah adds it, for the Apostle takes all this out of Jer. 31. 31.) although I was an Husband to them; and in the close of all, Your Sins and Iniquities will I remember no more.—Here are two Covenants, a new Covenant, and the Covenant he made with their Fathers. Some may think it was the Covenant of works at the promulgation of the Moral Law; but mark well that Expression of Jeremiah, and you shall see it was the Covenant of Grace. For (saith he) not according to the Covenant I made with their Fathers, although I was an Husband unto them. How can God be considered