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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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Thesis II.
Soon after the violation and cessation of this first Covenant, as a Covenant of Life, it pleased the Lord to open and publish the second Covenant of Grace by Jesus Christ, the first dawning whereof we find in Gen. 3. 15. where the Seed is promised which shall bruise the Serpent's head. And though this be but a very short, and somewhat obscure discovery of Man's Remedy and Salvation by Christ; yet was it a joyful sound to the ears of God's people, it was even life from the dead to the Believers of those times. For we may rationally conclude, That that space of time betwixt the breaking of the first, and making of the second Covenant; was the most dismal period of time that ever the World did, or shall see. This Covenant ⟨p. 284⟩of Grace now took place of the Covenant of Works, comprehended all Believers in the bosom of it. The Covenant of Works took place from the time it was made until the fall of Adam, and then was abolished as a Life-giving Covenant. The second Covenant took place from the time it was made soon after the fall, and is to continue to the end of the World. And these only are the two Covenants God hath made with Men; the latter succeeding the former, and commencing from its expiration; but both cannot possibly be in force together at the same time, and upon the same persons, as coordinate Covenants of Life and Salvation. For in co-ordination they expel and destroy each other, Gal. 5. 4. Whosoever of you are justified by the Law, ye are fallen from Grace. The first Covenant was a Covenant without a Mediator; the second is a Covenant with a Mediator. Place a Believer under both at once, or put these two Covenants in co-ordination, and that which results will be a pure contradiction, viz. That a Man is saved without a Mediator, and yet by a Mediator. Moreover, if there be a way to Life without a Mediator, there was no need to make a Covenant in and ⟨p. 285⟩