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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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And as this excellent Man, Mr. Burroughs, is in this sense for the Conditionality of the New Covenant; so are the most Learned and Eminent of our own Divines. Dr. Edward Reynold's assigning the differences betwixt the two Covenants, gives this for one:1 They differ in the Condition (saith he); there Legal Obedience, here only Faith; and the certain consequent thereof, Repentance. There is difference likewise in he manner of performing these Conditions: For now God himself begins ⟨p. 252⟩first to work upon us, and in us, before we move or stir towards him. He doth not only command us, and leave us to our created strength to obey the Command; but he furnisheth us with his own Grace and Spirit to obey the Command.
- 1Dr. Reynold's his Life of Christ. p. 512.
Of the same judgment is Dr. Owen. 1Are we able (saith he) of our selves to fulfil the Condition of the New Covenant? Is it not as easy for a Man by his own strength to fulfil the whole Law, as to repent, and believe the Promise of the Gospel? This then is one main difference of these two Covenants, That the Lord did in the Old only require the Condition; now in the New, he also effects it in all the federates to whom the Covenant is extended. This is the Man you pretend to be against Conditions.
Of the same judgment is Dr. Owen. 1Are we able (saith he) of our selves to fulfil the Condition of the New Covenant? Is it not as easie for a Man by his own strength to fulfil the whole Law, as to repent, and believe the Promise of the Gospel? This then is one main difference of these two Covenants, That the Lord did in the Old only require the Condition; now in the New, he also effects it in all the foederates to whom the Covenant is extended. This is the Man you pretend to be against Conditions.