A39674:763
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To your second Answer, That we are to deliberate the terms, and count the cost, with respect to those duties, which are in order to the participation of the full end of the Covenant in glory: by which, I suppose, you mean Self-denial, Perseverance, ⟨p. 276⟩&c. I have no Controversy with you about that. Our Question is, Whether there be no deliberations required of, or to be performed by men, who are not yet in Christ by justifying Faith, but under some preparatory works towards Faith? And whether at the very time of their closing with Christ, there be not a consent of the Will unto those terms required of them? If you say there be (as by the places I alleged it evidently appears there are) then you yield the point I contend for. If you say they are not before, or at the time of believing, to consider any terms, or give their consent to them by word or writing; such an Answer would fly in the very face of those Scriptures I produced: for then a man may be in covenant without his own consent: he that deliberates not, consents not; non consentit, qui non sentit. And therefore you durst not speak it out (for which modesty I commend you) and so leave me with half an answer, not touching that part, viz. Antecedent deliberations which were concerned in this Argument. And now let your most partial Friends judge, Whether from this performance of yours, you have any just ground for that vain boast ⟨p. 277⟩which concludes your Answer, viz. That the Covenants themselves, which those Privileges are bottomed on, are now repealed, and that there is no room left for any other Argument to infer the Baptism of Infants: at least, I shall willingly commit it to the judgment of all intelligent and impartial Readers, Whether Mr. Cary hath any real ground in this performance of his, for such a Thrasonical Conclusion, such a vain and fulsome Boast?
To your second Answer, That we are to deliberate the terms, and count the cost, with respect to those duties, which are in order to the participation of the full end of the Covenant in glory: by which, I suppose, you mean Self-denial, Perseverance, ⟨p. 276⟩&c. I have no Controversy with you about that. Our Question is, Whether there be no deliberations required of, or to be performed by men, who are not yet in Christ by justifying Faith, but under some preparatory works towards Faith? And whether at the very time of their closing with Christ, there be not a consent of the Will unto those terms required of them? If you say there be (as by the places I alledged it evidently appears there are) then you yield the point I contend for. If you say they are not before, or at the time of believing, to consider any terms, or give their consent to them by word or writing; such an Answer would fly in the very face of those Scriptures I produced: for then a man may be in covenant without his own consent: he that deliberates not, consents not; non consentit, qui non sentit. And therefore you durst not speak it out (for which modesty I commend you) and so leave me with half an answer, not touching that part, viz. Antecedent deliberations which were concerned in this Argument. And now let your most partial Friends judge, Whether from this performance of yours, you have any just ground for that vain boast