A39674:714
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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In your Reply (contrary to all rule and reason) you include and chiefly argue against the very Particulars by me there excluded; and scarcely (if at all) touch the true Question, as it was stated, and by you ought accordingly to have been considered. I might therefore justly think my self discharged from any further concernment with you about it: for if you will include what I plainly excluded, you argue not against mine, but another man's Position, which I am not concerned to defend. You here dispute against meritorious Conditions, which I explode and abhor as much as your self. You say, p. 34. of your Reply, that a Condition plainly implies something of merit, by way of condignity or congruity; which is false, and turns the Question from me to the Papists. And were it not more for the clearing up of so great a ⟨p. 245⟩Point for the instruction and satisfaction of others, than any hope you give me of convincing you, I should not have touched this Question again, unless I had found your Replies more distinct and pertinent. But finding the Point in controversy of great weight, I will once more tell you, 1. What the word [Condition] signifies. 2. In what sense it is by us used in this Controversy. 3. Establish my Arguments for the conditionality of the New Covenant.
(1.) And first we grant, That neither our word [Condition] nor your term [Absolute] are either of them found in Scripture, with respect to God's covenanting with Man; so that we contend not about the signification of a Scripture term. But though the word Conditional be not there, yet the thing being found there, That brings the word Conditional into use in this Controversy. For we know not how to express those • sacred Particles, [Greek or Hebrew] &c. If, If not, Unless, But if, Except, Only, and the like, which are frequently used to limit and restrain the ⟨p. 246⟩Grants and Privileges of the New Covenant, Rom. 10. 9.