A39674:707
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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 ⟨p. 240⟩as Husband to a People under the Covenant of Works, which was broken by man in innocency, and so became disannulled or impossible by the breach of it? The Covenant of Works runs thus: Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things that are written in the Book of the Law; and, In the day thou sinnest, thou shalt die the death. Man had sinned before God took him by the hand to lead him out of the Land of Egypt, and Sin had separated Man from God: how then can God be called an Husband in the Covenant of Works? The Covenant therefore was not a Covenant of Works, but such a Covenant as the Lord became an Husband in, and that must be a Covenant of Grace, &c.
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,