A39674:723
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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And thus our Pious and Learned Divines generally affirm Faith to be the condition of the Covenant.1 So Mr. Jeremiah ⟨p. 251⟩Burroughs, Faith (saith he) hath the great honour above all other Graces, to be the Condition of the second Covenant; therefore certainly it is some great matter that Faith enables us to do. Whatsoever keeps Covenant with God, brings strength, though it self be never so weak; as Sampson •s Hair. What is weaker than a little Hair? Yet because the keeping that, was keeping Covenant with God; therefore even a little Hair was so great strength to Sampson. Faith then, that is the Condition of the Covenant, in which all Grace and Mercy is contained, if it be kept, it will cause strength indeed to do great things.
And thus our Pious and Learned Divines generally affirm Faith to be the condition of the Covenant.1 So Mr. Ieremiah ⟨p. 251⟩Burroughs, Faith (saith he) hath the great honour above all other Graces, to be the Condition of the second Covenant; therefore certainly it is some great matter that Faith enables us to do. Whatsoever keeps Covenant with God, brings strength, though it self be never so weak; as Sampson •s Hair. What is weaker than a little Hair? Yet because the keeping that, was keeping Covenant with God; therefore even a little Hair was so great strength to Sampson. Faith then, that is the Condition of the Covenant, in which all Grace and Mercy is contained, if it be kept, it will cause strength indeed to do great things.
- 1Moses's Self-denial. p. 188.