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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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Though the primordial Light or first glimmerings of this Covenant of Grace, were comparatively weak and obscure; yet from the first publication of it to Adam, God in all Ages hath been amplifying the privileges, and heightening the glory of this second Covenant in all the after expressures and editions of it unto this day, and will more and more amplify and illustrate it to the end of the World.
Though the primordial Light or first glimmerings of this Covenant of Grace, were comparatively weak and obscure; yet from the first publication of it to Adam, God in all Ages hath been amplifying the privileges, and heightning the glory of this second Covenant in all the after expressures and editions of it unto this day, and will more and more amplify and illustrate it to the end of the World.
That first Promise, Gen. 3. 15. is like the first small Spring or Head of a great River, which the farther it runs, the bigger it grows by the accession of more Waters to it. Or like the Sun in the Heavens, which the higher it mounts, the more bright and glorious the day still grows.
In that period of time, betwixt Adam and Abraham, we find no token of God's Covenant ordered therein to be applied to the Infant-Seed of Believers. But in that second Edition of the Covenant to Abraham, the privileges of the Covenant were amplified, and his Infant-Seed, not only taken into the Covenant (as they were before) but also added to the visible Church, by receiving the token of ⟨p. 288⟩the Covenant, which then was Circumcision; and so here is a great addition made to the visible Church, even the whole Infant Off-spring of adult Believers.