A39674:762
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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To your first Answer, I say:1 It is true, the Scriptures do distinguish betwixt Covenant, and Covenant; that of Works, and that of Grace. It also distinguishes the same Covenant of Grace for substance, according to its various administrations, into the Old, and New Covenant. It also distinguishes betwixt the promissory part of the same Covenant of Grace, and the restipulatory part; not as of two opposite Covenants, (as you distinguish them, Gen. 17.) but as the just and necessary parts of one and the same Covenant. It also distinguishes betwixt Vows made by Men to God in ⟨p. 275⟩some particular Cases, and the Covenant of Grace betwixt God and them. But what's all this to your purpose? Or in what point doth it touch my Argument? You desire me to cast mine eye upon Ezek. 16. and Psal. 89. I have done so, and that impartially; and do assure you, I admire why you produce them against my Argument. That in Ezek. speaks of the enlargement of the Church by the accession of the Gentiles to it; and the sense of those words seems to me to be this; That this enlargement of the Church is a gracious addition, or something beyond what God had ever done in his former dispensations of the Covenant to that People. And for Psal. 89. I know not what you meant to produce it for, unless it be to prove what I never denied, That notwithstanding our failures in duty towards God, God will still keep his Covenant with us; though he will visit the Iniquities of his Covenant-people with a Rod.
To your first Answer, I say:1 It is true, the Scriptures do distinguish betwixt Covenant, and Covenant; that of Works, and that of Grace. It also distinguishes the same Covenant of Grace for substance, according to its various administrations, into the Old, and New Covenant. It also distinguishes betwixt the promissory part of the same Covenant of Grace, and the restipulatory part; not as of two opposite Covenants, (as you distinguish them,