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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
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.
I did in my first Answer to your Call, endeavour to prevent the needless trouble you have here given your self, by a succinct state of the Question: telling you the Controversy betwixt us, is not, (1.) Whether the Gospel-covenant requires no duties at all of them that are under it? nor (2.) Whether it requires any such Conditions as were in Adam's Covenant, namely, perfect, personal, and perpetual Obedience under the penalty of the Curse, and admitting no place of Repentance? nor (3.) Whether any Condition required by it on our part, have any thing in its own nature meritorious of the Benefits promised? nor (4.) Whether we be able in our own strength, and by the power of our Free-will, without the preventing, as well as the assisting Grace of God, to perform any such work or duty as we call a Condition? These things I told you were to be excluded out of this Controversy. But the only Question betwixt us, is, ⟨p. 244⟩Whether in the New Covenant, 1some act of ours (though it have no merit in it, nor can be done in our own single strength) be not required to be performed by us antecedently to a blessing or privilege consequent by virtue of a promise? And whether such an act or duty, being of a suspending nature to the blessing promised, it have not the true and proper nature of a Gospel-condition?
I did in my first Answer to your Call, endeavour to prevent the needless trouble you have here given your self, by a succinct state of the Question: telling you the Controversy betwixt us, is not, (1.) Whether the Gospel-covenant requires no duties at all of them that are under it? nor (2.) Whether it requires any such Conditions as were in Adam's Covenant, namely, perfect, personal, and perpetual Obedience under the penalty of the Curse, and admitting no place of Repentance? nor (3.) Whether any Condition required by it on our part, have any thing in its own nature meritorious of the Benefits promised? nor (4.) Whether we be able in our own strength, and by the power of our Free-will, without the preventing, as well as the assisting Grace of God, to perform any such work or duty as we call a Condition? These things I told you were to be excluded out of this Controversy. But the only Question betwixt us, is, ⟨p. 244⟩Whether in the New Covenant,