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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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You say by way of answer hereunto,1 that, you must tell me, that the Scriptures do make a plain distinction betwixt the New and Everlasting Covenant which God hath been pleased to make with Sinners in Jesus Christ; and the return of that sincere and dutiful obedience which he requires of us, by way of answer thereunto. (2.) You say, there are many things, which tho promised in the Covenant, and wrought in us by the Grace of God; are yet duties indispensably required of us in order to the participation of the full end of the Covenant in glory: and in respect hereof, we are indeed to deliberate the terms, count the cost, and give up our selves solemnly to him with sincere resolutions, &c. But then you thought I had understood there had been a vast difference betwixt God's Covenant with us, and our Covenant with God, citing Ezek. 16. 59, 60, 61. where God promiseth to give them their Sisters for Daughters, but not by their Covenant. And with this you compare Psal. 89. My Covenant ⟨p. 274⟩will I not break; where (you say) we find a plain distinction betwixt God's Covenant with them, and their duty to God. And lastly, you say, p. 105. that the want of a due observation of this plain Scripture-distinction, betwixt God's free and absolute Covenant made with Sinners in Christ, and our Covenants with God by way of return thereunto; is the true reason of all our mistakes about the true nature of the Gospel-Covenant, whilst we jumble and confound together that which the Scriptures do so plainly distinguish.
You say by way of answer hereunto,1 that, you must tell me, that the Scriptures do make a plain distinction betwixt the New and Everlasting Covenant which God hath been pleased to make with Sinners in Jesus Christ; and the return of that sincere and dutiful obedience which he requires of us, by way of answer thereunto. (2.) You say, there are many things, which tho promised in the Covenant, and wrought in us by the Grace of God; are yet duties indispensably required of us in order to the participation of the full end of the Covenant in glory: and in respect hereof, we are indeed to deliberate the terms, count the cost, and give up our selves solemnly to him with sincere resolutions, &c. But then you thought I had understood there had been a vast difference betwixt God's Covenant with us, and our Covenant with God, citing