A39674:717
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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As to the latter, namely, consequent Conditions, you your self acknowledge, p. 100. That in the outward dispensation of the Covenant, many things are required of us in order unto the participation or enjoyment of the full end of the Covenant in glory.
So then the Covenant is acknowledged to be consequently conditional,1 which is no more than to say with the Apostle, Without holiness no man shall see God; or, that if any man draw• back, his soul shall have no pleasure in him, &c. Our Controversy therefore is not about consequent Conditions, laid by God upon Believers, after they are in Christ and the Covenant; the Covenant so considered, à posteriori, will not be denied to be Conditional. The only Question is about Antecedent Conditions; and of these we are here to consider, 1. Such as respect the first Sanction of the Covenant in Christ. 2. Such as respect the application of the benefits of the Covenant unto Men*.
So then the Covenant is acknowledged to be consequently conditional,1 which is no more than to say with the Apostle, Without holiness no man shall see God; or, that if any man draw• back, his soul shall have no pleasure in him, &c. Our Controversy therefore is not about consequent Conditions, laid by God upon Believers, after they are in Christ and the Covenant; the Covenant so considered, à posteriori, will not be denied to be Condi•tional. The only Question is about Antecedent Conditions; and of these we are here to consider, 1. Such as respect the first Sanction of the Covenant in Christ. 2. Such as respect the application of the benefits of the Covenant unto Men*