A39674:780
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.
Thesis V.
It is to me clear beyond all contradiction, from Rom. 11. 17. If some of the branches be broken off, and thou being a wild Olive-tree, wert grafted in amongst them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the Olive-tree: I say, I can scarce desire a clearer Scripture-light than this Text gives, to satisfy my understanding in this case, That when God brake off the unbelieving Jews from the Church, ⟨p. 291⟩both Parents and Children together; the Believing Gentiles, which are as truly Abraham's Seed as they were, Gal. 3. 29. yea, the more excellent Seed of Abraham, were implanted or ingrafted in their room, and do as amply enjoy the Privileges of that Covenant, both internal and external, for themselves, and for their Infant-Seed, as ever any Members of the Jewish Church did or could do.
It is to me clear beyond all contradiction, from Rom. 11. 17. If some of the branches be broken off, and thou being a wild Olive-tree, wert grafted in amongst them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the Olive-tree: I say, I can scarce desire a clearer Scripture-light than this Text gives, to satisfy my understanding in this case, That when God brake off the unbelieving Iews from the Church, ⟨p. 291⟩both Parents and Children together; the Believing Gentiles, which are as truly Abraham's Seed as they were,