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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
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.
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.
From that period, until the coming of the Messiah in the flesh, the Jewish Church, and their Infant-Seed, except only some few Proselytes out of the Gentile Nations, made up the visible Church of God, and the poor Gentiles were without Christ, being aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel, and strangers from the Covenants of Promise, having no hope, and without God in the World, Ephes. 2. 12. but in this glorious third period, the Covenant again enlarges it self more than before, and the Privileges of it are no longer limited and restrained to the Jewish Believers and their Infant-Seed; but the Gentiles also are taken into the Covenant, and the door of Faith was opened unto them, Acts 14. 27