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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
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(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. Matt. 18. 3. Mark 5. 36. Mark 11. 26. Rom. 4. 24. I say, we know not how to express the true sense and force of these Particles in this Controversy, by any other word so fit and full as the word Conditional is. Now this word Condition being a Law-term, is variously used among Jurists; and the various use of the word, occasions that confusion which is found in this Controversy. He therefore that shall clearly distinguish the various senses and uses of the word, is most likely to labour with success in this Controversy. I shall therefore briefly note the principal senses and uses of the term, and show in what sense we here take it. Of Conditions there be two sorts.
(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, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 &c. If, If not, Vnless, But if, Except, Only, and the like, which are frequently used to limit and restrain the