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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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My third Argument was this.1 If all the Promises of the Gospel be absolute and unconditional, then they do not properly belong to the New Covenant. That cannot properly and strictly be a Covenant ⟨p. 269⟩which is not a mutual Compact, and in which there is no restipulation, nor reobligation: 'tis a naked Promise, not a Covenant.
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To this you answer three things.1 In the first branch of your Answer you impudently beg the Question, by saying, That you have proved already in your Replies to my former Arguments, that the New Covenant is wholly free and absolute. Upon this absurd Petitio Principii you make bold to invert my Argument thus in your second Reply. If all the Promises of the Gospel be wholly absolute and unconditional, they do properly and truly belong to the New Covenant: But so they are. Therefore, &c. Oh rare Disputant! In the last place, in opposition to the Sequel of my Major Proposition, you tell me you will oppose the Judgment of Dr. Owen on Heb. 8. 10. where he saith, That a Covenant properly is a Compact or Agreement on certain terms stipulated by two or more Parties, &c. and that the word [Greek or Hebrew] there used, it signifies a Covenant improperly, &c.
To this you answer three things.1 In the first branch of your Answer you impudently beg the Question, by saying, That you have proved already in your Replies to my former Arguments, that the New Covenant is wholly free and absolute. Upon this absurd Petitio Principii you make bold to invert my Argument thus in your second Reply. If all the Promises of the Gospel be wholly absolute and unconditional, they do properly and truly belong to the New Covenant: But so they are. Therefore, &c. Oh rare Disputant! In the last place, in opposition to the Sequel of my Major Proposition, you tell me you will oppose the Judgment of Dr. Owen on